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as provided for in Section 21 of this Article, shall be broken, injured,
altered, or changed, or condemned by the inspector, and shall be found
thereafter in the use of any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employee,
or officer of any person, firm or corporation, within the State, such person,
firm, or corporation, or agent, employee, or officer of such person, firm, or
corporation, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars for each offense.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 21. 1914, ch. 802.
23. The standard barrel for the shipment or sale by the barrel of pears,
quinces, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, green peas, beans, cabbage,
beets, parsnips, carrots, kale, spinach, broccoli, onions, and all other fruits
and vegetables grown and packed in this State, or grown elsewhere and
packed or repacked in this State, shall be of not less than the following
dimensions: Diameter of top and bottom, sixteen and one-half inches;
diameter of bulge, eighteen and one-half inches—both inside measure-
ments, length of stave twenty-seven and one-half inches.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 802.
24. The standard double-head barrel for the shipment or sale by the
barrel of apples grown and packed in this State, or grown elsewhere and
packed or repacked in this State, shall be of the following dimensions: Head
diameter, seventeen and one-eighth inches (17 1/8), regardless of the depth
of the chine in the staves; distance between heads, twenty-six inches (26) ;
inside measurement; circumference at the bulge, sixty-four inches (64),
outside measurement.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 25. 1912, sec. 23. 1914, ch. 802.
25. Any person, firm or corporation in this State who manufactures,
sells, offers for sale, or has in his, her, or its possession barrels, baskets, or
boxes of the capacities defined in Sections 20, 23 and 24 of this Article, and
if of less capacities than are defined in said Sections 20, 23 and 24, must
plainly mark in three conspicuous places on the exterior sides of said bar-
rels, baskets, or boxes, in letters not less than one and one-half inches high
the word "Short." Any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employee, or
officer of any person, firm, or corporation, violating any of the provisions of
this Section shall be fined not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars
for each offense; and the use, sale, or manufacture of each barrel, basket,
box, half-box, or half-basket, not marked as designated herein shall consti-
tute a separate offense.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, sec. 24. 1914, ch. 802. 1929, ch. 525.
26. The standard weights for grain, hay, straw, produce, and mineral
coal for this State shall be as follows: Apples (dried), 28 pounds, (green)
50 pounds, per bushel; alsike clover seed, 60 pounds per bushel; alfalfa
seed, 60 pounds per bushel; barley, 48 pounds per bushel; barley malt, 34
pounds per bushel; buckwheat, 48 pounds per bushel; blue grass seed, 14
pounds per bushel; dried beans, 60 pounds per bushel; bran, 20 pounds
per bushel; carrots, 50 pounds per bushel; corn (shelled), 56 pounds per
bushel; corn (on cob), 70 pounds per bushel; corn (on cob), 350 pounds
per barrel; corn (shelled), 280 pounds per barrel; corn meal, 48 pounds
per bushel; clover seed, 60 pounds per bushel; castor beans or seed, 50
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