§ 158. Apples; adoption of grades; branding. The commissioner is
hereby authorized and empowered, after investigation and public hearing,
to fix and promulgate official standards for grading and classifying
apples packed or repacked within the state, and to change any of them
from time to time. In establishing such standards he shall take into
account the factors of maturity, soundness, color and shape. The
official standards so fixed and promulgated shall not be lower in their
requirements than the minimum requirements of the official standards for
corresponding grades of apples as promulgated from time to time by the
secretary of agriculture of the United States, which standards are
commonly known as the "United States grades."

Each closed package of apples, when sold, exposed for sale or
transported for sale, shall be plainly and conspicuously branded to
show:

(1) Variety.

(2) Grade.

(3) Minimum diameter or numerical count.

(4) Quantity of contents.

(5) Name and address of packer or repacker.

If the true name of the variety is not known to the packer or
repacker, the statement shall include the words "variety unknown" in
place of the name of the variety.

In case the branding upon any closed package of apples is changed, the
person making the change shall cancel the name and address of the
original packer and substitute therefor his own name and address.