178 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



Sec. 3. Penalty. — Any person in this state who sells or 

 offers to sell fruit packages that are of less than the standard 

 sizes and capacity as defined in Section i, or any person who 

 sells or offers for sale fruit in packages that are of less size 

 or capacity than those defined in Section i, that are not 

 marked with the word " short," as directed in Section 2, shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convictitjn 

 thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined 

 not less than five dollars and not more than twenty-five dol- 

 lars, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such 

 fine and costs are paid. 



Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect January first, nineteen 

 hundred. 



NEW YORK APPLE, PEAR, QUINCE, AND POTATO 

 BARREI< LAW 



(Laws of 1899, chap. 317.) 



An Act to amend the domestic commerce law in relation to 

 the size of apple, pear, quince, and potato barrels. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 

 Section i. Section nine of chapter three hundred and 

 seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, 

 entitled " An act relating to domestic commerce law, consti- 

 tuting chapter thirty-four of the general laws," is hereby 

 amended to read as follows: 



Sec. 9. Barrels of apples, quinces, pears, and potatoes. — A 

 barrel of pears, quinces, or potatoes shall represent a quantity 

 equal to one hundred quarts of grain or dry measure. A 

 barrel of apples shall be of the following dimensions: head 

 diameter, seventeen and one-eighth inches; length of stave, 

 twenty-eight and one-half inches: bulge, not less than sixty- 

 four inches outside measurement. Every person buying or 

 selling apples, pears, quinces, or potatoes in this state by the 

 barrel shall be understood as referring to the quantity or size 

 of the barrel specified in this section, but when potatoes are 



