142 HORTICULTURIST'S RULE-BOOK. 



The half -bushel is 13 f inches in interior diameter and 

 7 fa inches deep in Ohio. It contains 1075 cubic inches in 

 Indiana. 



In New Jersey the cranberry box, to hold a bushel, must be 

 12 x 8 1 x 22 inches in the clear. 



In Wisconsin, cranberry packages must conform to the fol- 

 lowing sizes : " The legal and standard cranberry barrel in 

 this State shall be twenty-three and three-quarters inches high, 

 sixteen and one-fourth inches in diameter at the head, and 

 eighteen inches in diameter at the bilge, inside measure. 

 Every manufacturer of barrels for cranberries shall stamp or 

 brand his name with the letters W. S. on such barrels, to indi- 

 cate that they are the Wisconsin Standard in size. All sales of 

 cranberries in packages less than a barrel should be by the 

 bushel or quart, struck or level dry measure. A standard 

 bushel crate for cranberries shall be twenty-two inches long, 

 twelve and one-fourth inches wide by seven and one-half inches 

 deep, inside measure." 



In New York a barrel of apples, quinces, pears, or potatoes 

 shall contain 100 quarts of grain or dry measure, except that 

 potatoes, when sold by weight, shall be 172 pounds to the barrel. 



In New York the measure for fruit shall be the half-bushel, 

 which shall be made cylindrical, the diameter outside to out- 

 side 15 1 inches. The standard half-bushel has 1075 T 2 ^ cubic 

 inches. 



In Michigan the quantity known as a box or a basket of 

 peaches shall contain 716| cubic inches or i of a bushel, strict 

 measure. 



Michigan Standard Measure. The half-bushel or parts 

 thereof shall be the standard measure for fruits customarily 

 sold by heaped measure ; and in measuring said commodities, 

 the half-bushel or other small measure shall be heaped as high 

 as may be, without special effort or design. 



Michigan Standard Barrel. A barrel of fruit, roots, or 

 vegetables is the quantity contained in a barrel made from 

 staves 27 inches in length, and each head 16| inches in diam- 

 eter, or ordinary flour-barrel size. 



