No person shall offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale any oleomargarine or butterine or suine or any substance in semblance of natural butter or cheese or any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or cream from pure milk, unless contained in or sold out of or in tubs, pails, firkins, vessels or other packages marked and labeled as required by § 138-57 of this chapter.
No person shall offer or expose for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale any mixture or compound of natural butter or cheese with oleomargarine, butterine, suine or any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil or any substance not the product of pure milk or cream from pure milk, except that such mixture or compound shall be sold out of or in or contained in tubs, firkins, pails, vessels or packages marked or labeled as required by § 138-57 of this chapter.
No oleomargarine, butterine or suine or any substance or compound or mixture in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese or any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not the product of pure milk or cream from pure milk shall be sold or exposed or offered for sale or held in possession for the purposes of sale except when contained in tubs, pails, boxes, firkins, vessels or other packages that are marked or labeled as follows:
A. 
Every such tub, pail, box, firkin or other vessel or package shall have painted on the outside thereof and midway between the top and bottom thereof a stripe or band at least three inches wide and extending completely around said vessel or package, and said stripe or band shall be painted with black paint.
B. 
Every such vessel or package shall have legibly branded and burnt in by means of a branding or burning iron on the outside of the cover and on the outside of said vessel or package in two places as nearly opposite each other as possible the words "oleomargarine," "butterine," "suine" or "imitation butter" or "imitation cheese" as the case may be, and said name or title shall be composed of Roman letters at least 1/2 an inch high and at least 1/4 of an inch broad, and said name or title shall be at least 10 inches long.
C. 
Every such tub, pail, box, firkin or other vessel or package shall bear a label or shall have branded on it a mark giving the name and address of the maker of the contents thereof and the name and location of the manufactory.
No person shall sell any oleomargarine, butterine, suine or any substance or semblance of natural butter or cheese or any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or the cream from pure milk at retail or in quantities less than the original tub, firkin or other package, unless he shall first inform the purchaser that the substance is not natural butter or cheese, but is imitation butter or cheese, and at the time of sale and with each sale, he shall give to the purchaser a card or notice printed on which shall be the name of the substance sold and the name and address of the seller or vendor, and nothing else shall be printed thereon unless it is the weight of the parcel; and said notice or card shall be at least six inches long and at least four inches wide, and the printing thereon shall be in letters at least of the size known as two-line English, and said notice or card shall be printed in black and in the English language, upon white paper, plainly and legibly, and shall be either upon the outside of the outer wrapper in which the substance is delivered to the purchaser or upon a separate card or paper attached thereto; in either case the notice shall be so placed that no part thereof shall be concealed from view.
No person shall offer or expose for sale or sell or have in possession for the purpose of sale any oleomargarine, butterine, suine or any substance in imitation or natural butter or cheese or any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or mineral fat or oil not produced from pure milk or cream from pure milk that is colored, stained or mixed with annotto or any coloring matter or substance.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms "natural butter" or "natural butter or cheese" shall be taken to mean the product or products usually known by these names and which are made and manufactured exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with salt or salt and rennet, and with or without coloring matter or sage; and the terms "oleomargarine," "butterine," "suine" or "substance in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese" shall be taken to mean any substance that is rendered, made, manufactured or compounded out of any animal or vegetable or mineral oil or fat not the product of pure milk or the cream from pure milk, and also any compound or mixture of natural butter or cheese or milk or cream with any of these substances not milk or cream.
A. 
The possession by any person who is either manufacturer, merchant, broker or wholesale or retail dealer, or a hotel, inn, restaurant or boardinghouse keeper of any oleaginous substance, mixture or compound whatever as defined by this chapter not natural butter that is not contained in a tub, box pail or vessel plainly marked and branded in accordance with the provisions of § 138-57 of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of intent to sell the same.
B. 
No person shall in any way or manner erase, cancel or obliterate, deface or cover over or remove either the brand or stripe of paint or the brands required by § 138-57 of this chapter to be placed on the tub, box, pail or vessel containing any oleaginous substance, mixture or compound as defined by this chapter.