Legal Weights of Agricultural Products

inches, quarts and basket

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Sub-section I, Section 325: The minimum legal limit of apple barrel is a barrel having a dimension of not less than twenty-six inches and one-quarter between the heads, inside measure, and a head diameter of seventeen inches and a middle diameter of eighteen inches and one-half, representing as nearly as possible ninety-six quarts.

Sub-section 3, Section 325 : " When apples are packed in Canada for export, for sale by the box, they shall be packed in good strong boxes, of seasoned wood, the inside dimensions of which shall not be less than ten inches in depth, eleven inches in width and twenty inches in length, repre senting as nearly as possible two thousand two hundred cubic inches." Sub-section 2, Section 326, of the Inspection and Sale Act, dealing with fruit baskets, now (May, 1907) reads as follows : "2. Every basket of fruit offered for sale in Canada unless stamped on the side plainly in black letters at least three-quarters of an inch deep and wide, with the word 'Quart' in full, preceded with the minimum number of quarts, omitting tractions, which the basket will hold when level-full, shall contain, when level-full, one or other of the fol lowing quantities : "(a) Fifteen quarts or more.

"(5) Eleven quarts, and be five and three-fourths inches deep perpendicularly, eighteen and three fourths inches in length and eight inches in wid li at the top of the basket, sixteen and three-fourth 3 inches in length and six and seven-eighths inches in width at the bottom of the basket, as nearly exactly as practicable, all measurements to be inside of the veneer proper, and not to include the top band.

"(c) Six quarts, and be four and one-half inches deep perpendicularly, fifteen and three-eighths inches in length and seven inches in width at the top of the basket, thirteen and one-half inches in length and five and seven-eighths inches in width at the bottom of the basket, as nearly exactly as practicable, all measurements to be inside of the veneer proper, and not to include the top band : Provided that the Governor in Council may by proclamation exempt any province from the opera tion of this section.

"(d) Two and two-fifths quarts, as nearly exactly as practicable."

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