. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. Chapter XIX. GRADING AND PACKING. Instead of a coreless apple, we need one that is as big in the middle of the barrel as at the ends. The package that has been most commonly used up to the present time, for apples, is the barrel. The standard of size is not uniform throughout the apple region. The New York law calls for a barrel with '' head diameter seventeen and one-eighth inches ; length of stave twenty-eight and one-half inches ; bulge not less than sixty-four inches, outside ; The Mi
. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. Chapter XIX. GRADING AND PACKING. Instead of a coreless apple, we need one that is as big in the middle of the barrel as at the ends. The package that has been most commonly used up to the present time, for apples, is the barrel. The standard of size is not uniform throughout the apple region. The New York law calls for a barrel with '' head diameter seventeen and one-eighth inches ; length of stave twenty-eight and one-half inches ; bulge not less than sixty-four inches, outside ; The Missouri barrel is as follows: "Length of barrel twenty-eight and one-half inches, with chines of three-fourths of an inch at the ends; the diameter of the heads shall be seventeen and one-fourth inches and the diam- eter of the centre of the barrel inside shall be twenty and one-half ; The Canadian barrel for export apples is required by law to be "twenty-six inches and one-fourth between the heads, inside measurements, and a head diameter of seventeen inches, and a middle diameter of eighteen inches and one-half, representing as nearly as possible ninety-six ; The barrel recognized by the National Apple- Shippers' Association is seventeen and one-eighth inches in diameter of head, twenty-eight inches in (129). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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