NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2439.
(Given pnrsnant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. Jesse Eardly.    Trial by jury.    Verdict of guilty.   Fine, $25 and cost*.
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
On August 8, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict an information against Jesse Eardly, Worden, Ill., alleging ship- 
ment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on 
July 12, 1911, from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, 
of a quantity of milk which was adulterated. The product bore no 
label.
Analysis of samples of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: (Sample No. 1) 
90,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 1,000,000 
B. coli group; 1,000,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 2) 90,000,000 
bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 10,000,000 B coli 
group; 10,000,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 3) 120,000,000 bac- 
teria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 10,000,000 B. coli 
group; 10,000,000 streptococci. (Sample No. 4) 20,000,000 bacteria 
per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 1,000,000 B. coli group; 
100 streptococci. (Sample No. 5) 22,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain 
agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 1,000,000 B. coli group; 1,000,000 strep- 
tococci. (Sample No. 6) 30,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 
2 days at 37° C.; 10,000 B. coli group; 100,000 streptococci. (Sample 
No. 7) 17,000,000 bacteria per cc, plain agar, after 2 days at 37° C.; 
1,000,000 gas-producing organisms; 1,000,000 streptococci.   Adultera-
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tion of the product was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it was composed in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid ani- 
mal substance.
On January 25, 1913, the case having come on for trial before the 
court and a jury, a verdict of guilty was returned by the jury and 
the court, on February 3,1913, imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 19,1913.
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