Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities
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The Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities is United States legislation that specified the standard barrel size and measurements for fruit
s and vegetable
s, establishing grading standards and inspections for each produce type. It penalized merchants who didn’t use standardized barrels. The act was sponsored by Rep. William E. Tuttle, Jr.
(D) of New Jersey.
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
s and vegetable
Vegetable
The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant....
s, establishing grading standards and inspections for each produce type. It penalized merchants who didn’t use standardized barrels. The act was sponsored by Rep. William E. Tuttle, Jr.
William E. Tuttle, Jr.
William Edgar Tuttle, Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1915.-Biography:Tuttle was born in Horseheads, New York on December 10, 1870...
(D) of New Jersey.