Add to ORKG6 Harvest–Hauling–Handling Barreling was the dominant method of packing apples into the 1920s, although some were poured in bulk on freight cars. The barreling was done in the orchard with little thought of grading. Almost every harvest scene of this period depicted this practice. A barrel held 140 pounds of apples at 1 cent per pound. When local barrel makers went on strike, a grower at Cane Hill opened his own barrel factory. It was promptly burned down by the strikers. The Sulzer Bill, passed in 1912, was the first federal attempt at grade standards. Aimed primarily at barreling, it required a specific label as to contents, along with the grower’s name, variety of apple and sorting size. As early as 1905, boxing was advocated as a bette...