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in barrels or who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale such barrels 

 in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a 

 penalty of one dollar and costs for each such barrel so sold or 

 offered for sale, to be recovered at the suit of the United States 

 in any court of the United States having jurisdiction. 



Section 7. That this Act shall be in force and effect from 

 and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen. 



Approved, August 3, 1912. 



MASSACHUSETTS APPLE GRADING LAW. 



General Acts, 1915, Chapter 261, as amended by Chapter 63, General Acts, 



1916. 



An Act relative to the Packing, Grading and Sale of 



Apples, 

 Standard Barrel and Standard Box defined. 



Section 1. 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; diam- 

 eter of heads, seventeen and one eighth inches; distance between 

 heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four 

 inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not 

 greater than four tenths of an inch: provided, that any barrel of 

 a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty- 

 six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. 



The standard box for apples shall be of the following dimen- 

 sions by inside measurement: eighteen inches by eleven and one 

 half inches by ten and one half inches, without distention of its 

 parts, and having a capacity of not less than two thousand one 

 hundred seventy-three and one half cubic inches. 



Grades defined. 

 Section 2. The standard grades of apples when packed or 

 repacked in closed packages within this commonwealth shall be 

 as follows: — "Massachusetts Standard Fancy" shall include 

 only apples of one variety which are well matured specimens, 

 hand-picked, above medium color for the variety, normal shape, 

 of good and reasonably uniform size, sound, free from disease, 

 insect and fungus injury, bruises and any other defects except 

 such as are necessarily caused in the operation of packing, and 

 shall be packed properly in clean, strong packages: provided, 

 that apples of one variety which are not more than three per 

 cent below the foregoing specifications may be graded as " Mas- 

 sachusetts Standard Fancy". 



