Chapter 273. To establish a standard barrel and standard grades for apples when packed in barrels, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 273.— An Act To establish a standard barrel and standard grades for apples when packed in barrels, and for other purposes.August 3, 1912.[[H. R. 21480](/us/bill/62/hr/21480).][[Public, No. 252](/us/62/pl/252).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Apples.Standard barrel established for. That 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; diameter of head, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches outside measurement, representing as nearly as possible seven *Proviso*.Steel barrels.thousand and fifty-six cubic inches: *Provided*, That steel barrels containing the interior dimensions provided for in this section shall be construed as a compliance therewith. Sec. 2. Grades established for apples in interstate, etc., commerce.That the standard grades for apples when packed in barrels which shall be shipped or delivered for shipment in interstate251or 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 minimum 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. Sec. 3. That the barrels in which apples are packed in accordanceBranding of barrels. with the provision of this Act may be branded in accordance with section two of this Act. Sec. 4. That all barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to beRequirements for barrels. 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 thisMarking. paragraph shall be in block letters of size not less than seventy-two point one-inch gothic. Sec. 5. That barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to beMisbranding. misbranded within the meaning of this Act— First. If the barrel bears any statement, design, or device indicatingContents below standard. that the apples contained therein are “Standard” grade and the apples when packed do not conform to the requirements prescribed by section two of this Act.
Second. If the barrel bears any statement, design, or device indicatingInsufficient statements. 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. Sec. 6. That any person, firm or corporation, or association whoPenalty for violations. shall knowingly pack or cause to be packed apples 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.
Sec. 7. That this Act shall be in force and effect from and afterIn effect July 1, 1918. the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen. Approved, August 3, 1912.