Essentials of Fruit Culture: Varieties of Apples; Apple Culture; Apple Pests and Injuries; Apple Harvesting, Storing, and Marketing; Pear Culture; Cherries, Apricots, and Quinces |
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Page 4 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 3 - ... lead arsenate and water, the percentage of extra water being plainly and correctly stated on the label.
Page 19 - Act, together with the costs of prosecution; and in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a term not exceeding one month, unless such fine and the costs of enforcing it are sooner paid.
Page 18 - That all barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to be below standard if the barrel bears any statement, design, or device indicating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as herein...
Page 1 - fungicide" as used in this act shall include any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any and all fungi that may infest vegetation or be present in any environment whatsoever.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 21 - 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 indicating that the apples contained therein are "Standard...
Page 17 - That the standard grades for apples when packed in barrels which shall be shipped or delivered for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, or which shall be sold or offered for sale within the District of Columbia or the Territories of the United States...
Page 19 - No person shall sell, or offer, expose or have in his possession for sale, any...
Page 18 - Christian names, and his full surname and address, or, in the case of a firm or corporation, with the firm or corporate name and address; (b) With the name of the variety or varieties; and, (c) With a designation of the grade of fruit, which shall include one of the following four marks, viz.: Fancy, No.
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| Title | Essentials of Fruit Culture: Varieties of Apples; Apple Culture; Apple Pests and Injuries; Apple Harvesting, Storing, and Marketing; Pear Culture; Cherries, Apricots, and Quinces Essentials of Fruit Culture ; Varieties of Apples ; Apple Culture ; Apple Pests and Injuries ; Apple Harvesting, Storing, and Marketing ; Pear Culture ; Cherries, Apricots, and Quinces, International Correspondence Schools Volume 124 of International library of technology |
| Author | International Correspondence Schools |
| Publisher | International Textbook Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Jan 17, 2008 |
| Length | 539 pages |
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