Three wooden hoops on each bilge and three on each head.
FORTY-POUND QUARTER BARREL PACKAGE MADE OF WHITE PINE OR BIRCH, FOR PIGS FEET, TRIPE AND OTHER OFFAL.
Staves 17 inches long
Heads 10⁵⁄₈ inches wide
Bilge 38¹⁄₂ inches
Chime ⁷⁄₈ inch
Two head hoops and two bilge hoops of wood each end.
Government specifications for Packages.
—The following are the government specifications for packages containing pork or beef:
The packages must be made entirely new and of the best seasoned heart-of-white oak staves and headings: The staves shall not be less than ⁵⁄₈-inch thick and the headings not less than ³⁄₄-inch thick. They shall be three-quarter hooped over, including galvanized iron hoops with the best hickory hoops, and each one-half barrel shall have on it four galvanized iron hoops; one of 1¹⁄₄ inches in width to each bilge and one of 1¹⁄₈ inches in width on each chime, and each shall be ¹⁄₁₆-inch thick.