UNITED STATES APPLE GRADING LAW. 



The United States Apple Grading Law, popularly known as 

 the "Sulzer Bill," establishes a standard barrel for apples 

 which is the same as the United States standard barrel for 

 fruits, vegetables and other dry commodities. It defines three 

 standard grades and provides a penalty for misbranding. It 

 applies to apples packed in barrels only when shipped or de- 

 livered for shipment from one State to another or to a foreign 

 country. 



MASSACHUSETTS APPLE GRADING LAW. 



The Massachusetts Apple Grading Law is an act to regulate 

 the grading, packing, marking, shipping and sale of apples in 

 closed packages. It applies to all apples in closed packages, 

 packed or repacked in Massachusetts, and intended for sale 

 either within or without the State, and also to apples grown 

 in other States when such apples are graded and branded as 

 conforming to the Massachusetts standard. 



The law, and the regulations authorized thereby, went into 

 effect July 1, 1916. 



The law fixes a standard for barrels which is the same as the 

 United States standard, and a standard for boxes uniform with 

 standards of the principal apple-growing States; it defines a 

 closed package; it establishes three standard grades and pro- 

 vides that all apples sold in closed packages not conforming to 

 these three grades or, if conforming, not branded in accordance 

 therewith, shall be deemed "UNGRADED" and so marked; 

 it requires every closed package of apples packed or repacked 

 within the State to be marked in a conspicuous place with 

 certain information as to its contents; it specifies that closed 

 packages containing apples packed or repacked without the 

 State to be sold within the State as of a Massachusetts stand- 

 ard grade shall not be falsely marked; it authorizes the secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Agriculture to make and publish 

 rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of the act; 

 it empowers the said secretary and deputies to enter any 

 building or other place where apples are packed, stored, sold or 

 offered or exposed for sale and to open any closed package, and. 



