---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 231"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "231"
heading: "Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/231"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter VI — Standard Barrels"
---

# §231. Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels


The standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches outside measurement, representing as nearly as possible seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches: Provided, That steel barrels containing the interior dimensions provided for in this section shall be construed as a compliance therewith.


## Source credit

(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 1, 37 Stat. 250.)