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interstate 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. 



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

 accordance with the provisions of this Act may be branded in 

 accordance with section two of this Act. 



Section 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 barrel shall be plainly marked on end and side with 

 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 this paragraph shall 

 be in block letters of size not less than seventy-two point one 

 inch gothic. 



Section 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 re- 

 quirements 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 also a statement of the name 

 of the variety, the name of the locality where grown, and the 

 name of the packer or the person by whose authority the apples 

 were packed and the barrel marked. 



Section 6. That any person, firm or corporation, or asso- 

 ciation who shall knowingly pack or cause to be packed apples 



