167 

 SULZER BILL 



The Apple Package and Grade Bill Signed by the President 

 August 3, 1913 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the 

 standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimensions 

 when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, 

 twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heao, seventeen 

 and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inch- 

 es; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches outside measure- 

 ment, representing as nearly as possible seven thousand and 

 fifty-six cubic inches, provided that steel barrels containing the 

 interior dimensdons provided for in this Section shall be con- 

 strued as a compliance therewith. 



Sec. 2. That the standard grades for apples when packed in 

 barrels which shall be shipped or delivered for shipment in inter- 

 state or foreign commerce, or which shall be sold or offered for 

 sale within the District of Columbia or the Territories of the 

 United States shall be as follows: Apples of one variety, which 

 are well-grown specimens, hand picked, of good color for the 

 variety, normal shape, practically free from insect and fungous 

 injury, bruises and other defects, except such as are necessarily 

 caused in the operation of packing, or apples of one variety 

 which are not more than ten per centum below the foregoing 

 specifications shall be "Standard Grade minimum size two and 

 one-half inches," if the minimum size of the apples is two and 

 one-half inches, in transverse diameter; "Standard Grade mini- 

 mum size two and one-fourth inches," if the minimum size of 

 the apples is two and one-fourth inches in transverse diameter; 

 or "Standard Grade minimum size two inches," if the minimum 

 size of the apples is two inches in transverse diameter. 



Sec. 3. That the barrels in which apples are packed in 

 accordance Avith the provisions of this Act may be branded in 

 accordance with Section two of this Act. 



Sec. 4. That all barrels packed with apples shall be deemed 

 to be below standard if the barrel bears any statement, design or 

 device indicating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as 

 herein defined, and the capacity of the barrel is less than the 

 •capacity prescribed by Section one of this Act, unless the bar- 

 rel shall be plainly marked on end and side witb words or figures 

 showing the fractional relation which the actual capacity of the 

 barrel bears to the capacity prescribed by Section one of this Act. 

 The marking required by tMs paragraph shall be in block let- 

 ters of size not less than seventy-two point one inch gothic. 



Sec. 5. That barrels packed with apples shall be deemed 

 to be misbranded within the meaning of this Act: 



First. — If the barrel bears any statement, design or device 

 indicating that the apples contained therein are "Standard Grade" 

 and the apples when packed do not conform to the requirements 

 prescribed by Section two of this Act. 



Second If the barrel bears any statement, design or device 



indicating that the apples contained therein are "Standard Grade" 

 and the barrel fails to bear alpo a statement of the name of the 



