---
type: "LegalText"
title: "15 U.S.C. § 231"
description: "Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "6"
chapter_name: "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME"
section: "231"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 231"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s231"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-15/usc15.xml"
source_hash: "350007503293c0eeadb4f443d60d46059eeec31df0c74d237031411d106b795a"
raw_snapshot_hash: "6982338d990ef19d6b52bff6825089bdd6d0ee1233d9382673faf533decd5059"
text_hash: "6d7e980973072c60fdabd715b3da7238b9820c06a925850f31710fca0d144566"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 15 U.S.C. § 231 - Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels

## Text

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.

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