The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-21
SULZER APPLE
PACKING LAW
(Efective July 1, 1881

Sec BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representative of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, that the standard barrel
for apples shall be of the following
distention of its parts: Length of
stave, tWenty-eight and one-half inch
es; diameter of head, seventeen and
one-eighth inchs; distance between
heads, twenty-six inches; circumfer-
ence of bulge, sixty-four inches out
side measurement, representing as
nearly as possible seven thousand and
ifty-six cubic inches. provided that
steel barrel containing the interior
dimensions provided for in this Section
shall be construed as compliment
Herewith.
Sec. 2.-That the standard grades
for apples, when packed in barrels
which shall be shipped or delivered for
shipment in interstate or foreign COM
merce, or which shall besold or offered
for sale within the District of Column
bia 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 eentum 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; Stand
ard Grade minimum size two and one
fourth inches" if the minimum size
of the apples is two and one-fourtt
inches, in transverse diameter; OF
STANDARD Grade minimum size tive
inches, . if the minimum size of the
apples is two inches in transverse
diameter.
Sec 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.
Sec. 4. That all barrels packed will
apples shall be deemed to be below
standard if the barrel bears any state
ment, design or device, indicating thai
the barrel is standard barrel of ap
pies, as herein defined. and the capac
ty of the barrel is less than the capac
ity prescribed by Section one of this
Act, unless the barrel shall be plainly
marked on end and side with words o.
figures showing the fractional relation
which the actual capacity of the barre
bears to the capacity prescribed by
Section one Of this Act. The marking
required by this paragraph shall b,
in block letters of size not less thar
seventy-two point one inch gothic.
Sec. 5.-The barrels packed will
! apples shall be deemed to be mis-
! branded within the meaning of thi
Act:
, First If the barrel bears any stat,
ment, design or device indicating tina
the apples contained are STANDARD
, Grade" and the apples. when packed
do not conform to the requirement
ID prescribed by Section two of this Act
Second If the barrel bears an,
81 statement, design or device indicatin,
q that the apples contained therein ar,
] Standard Grade" and the barrel fail
to bear also a statement of the nam
of the variety, the name of the local
ity where grown and the name of tn
packer or the person by whose author
ity the apples were packed and tn
I barrel marked.