Capacities.

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  3. Commerce and Foreign Trade
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  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
  6. Standards for Barrels
  7. Barrels for Fruits, Vegetables and Other Dry Commodities, and for Cranberries
  8. Capacities.

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§ 241.1 Capacities.

(a) The capacities of the standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities, other than cranberries, and its subdivisions, are as follows:

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Size Cubic inches Bushels1 Quarts1
Barrel 7,056 3.281 105
3⁄4 barrel 5,292 2.46 783⁄4
1⁄2 barrel 3,528 1.641 521⁄2
1⁄3 barrel 2,352 1.094 35

1 Struck measure.

(b) The capacities of the standard cranberry barrel and its subdivisions are as follows:

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Size Cubic inches Bushels1 Quarts1
Cranberry barrel 5,826 2.709 8645⁄64
3⁄4 cranberry barrel 4,369.5 2.032 651⁄64
1⁄2 cranberry barrel 2,913 1.355 4311⁄32
1⁄3 cranberry barrel 1,942 .903 2829⁄32

1 Struck measure.

(Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 1186; 15 U.S.C. 234)


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