STANDARDS FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 137 
When a percentage of the potatoes is specified to be 
of a certain size and larger, no part of any tolerance 
shall be used to reduce such a percentage for the lot 
as a whole but individual containers may have not 
more than 15 percent less than the percentage required 
or specified provided that the entire lot averages with- 
in the percentage specified. For example, a lot speci- 
fied as 25 percent 24% inches and larger may have 
containers with not less than 10 percent 214 inches 
and larger provided the lot as a whole averages 25 
percent 214 inches and larger. 
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS 
As used in these grades: 
1. “ Fairly well shaped ’”’ means that the potato is 
not so pointed, dumbbell shaped, or otherwise ill- 
formed that its appearance is materially injured. 
2. “Soft rot or wet break-down” means any soft, 
mushy, or leaky condition of the tissue such as slimy 
soft rot, leak, or wet break-down following freezing 
injury or sunscald. 
3. “Damage” means any injury or defect which 
materially injures the appearance of the individual 
potato or the general appearance of the potatoes in 
the container, or which cannot be removed without 
a loss of more than 5 percent of the total weight of 
the potato. Loss of outer skin (epidermis) shall not 
be considered as damage unless the skinned surface 
is materially affected by very dark discoloration. Any 
one of the following defects or any combination of 
defects the seriousness of which exceeds the maximum 
allowed for any one defect shall be considered as 
damage: 
(a) Dirt when the general appearance of the pota- 
tees in the container is more than slightly dirty or 
stained, or when individual potatoes are badly caked 
with dirt or badly stained; or other foreign matter 
which materially affects the appearance of the po- 
tatoes. 
(6) Second growth or growth cracks which have 
developed to such an extent as to materially injure 
the appearance of the individual potato or the general 
appearance of the potatoes in the container. 
(c) Air cracks which are deep, or shallow air 
cracks which materially injure the appearance of the 
