Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ELBERTA Chapter AND PACKING. Instead of a careless apple, 7ve need one that is as big in themiddle of the barrel as at the ends. The package that has been most commonly usedup to the present time, for apples, is the barrel. Thestandard of size is not xmiform throughout the appleregion. The New York law calls for a barrel with headdiameter seventeen and one-eighth inches ; length ofstave twenty-eight and one-half inches ; bulge not lessthan sixty-four inches, outside measure
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ELBERTA Chapter AND PACKING. Instead of a careless apple, 7ve need one that is as big in themiddle of the barrel as at the ends. The package that has been most commonly usedup to the present time, for apples, is the barrel. Thestandard of size is not xmiform throughout the appleregion. The New York law calls for a barrel with headdiameter seventeen and one-eighth inches ; length ofstave twenty-eight and one-half inches ; bulge not lessthan sixty-four inches, outside measurements. The Missouri barrel is as follows: Length ofbarrel twenty-eight and one-half inches, with chinesof three-fourths of an inch at :«Lk i i| i k || the ends; the diameter of the iwli^il^r]heads shall be seventeen and ^T^^^^^^^wL—one-fourth inches and the diam- //tjli f^JE^jl^^ of the centre of the barrel - —-^^^-^-^3lrJ^ ^inside shall be twenty and one-half inches. The Canadian barrel for export apples is requiredby law to be twenty-six inches and one-fourthbetween the heads, inside measure
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