F. & D. No. 114-C.	
Issued May 18, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1424.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On or about October 31, 1911, Eli N". Hershey, treasurer and man??
ager of the Hershey Creamery Co., Harrisburg, Pa., sold and de??
livered at the Union Station, Washington, D. C-, a quantity of milk.?
Dr. Wm, C. Woodward, Health Officer of the District of Columbia,?
acting under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, caused a?
sample from the above delivery to be procured and analyzed. As it?
appeared from the findings of the analyst and report made that the?
said milk was adulterated within the meaning of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906, the said Eli N. Hershey was afforded an op??
portunity for hearing, and as it appeared after the hearing was held?
that the said sale was made in violation of the act, the said Health?
Officer reported the facts to the United States Attorney for the Dis??
trict of Columbia.
In due course a criminal information against the said Eli N.?
Hershey was filed in the Police Court of the District of Columbia,?
charging that the milk was adulterated, in that it consisted in whole?
or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal or vegetable?
substance.
On January 4,- 1912, the defendant entered a plea of not guilty,?
but upon trial was found guilty and the court imposed a fine of $25.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 28, 1912.
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