NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2730.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. J. F. Eckard.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $25.
ADULTERATION OF DRIED APPLES.
At the June, 1912, term of the District Court of the United States 
for the Western District of Virginia the grand jurors of the United 
States within and for said district, acting upon a report by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, returned an indictment against J. F. Eckard, 
Edinburg, Va., charging shipment by said defendant, in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, during the month of October, 1911, from 
the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of 
a product purporting to be dried apples which was adulterated. The 
product was labeled: " I Cooke & Sons Commission Merchants, 7 
West Pratt St., Baltimore, Md.    J. F. Eckard, Bowman, Va."
Examination of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemis- 
try of this Department showed the following results: 343 grams con- 
tained 3 beetles, 14 worms; many pieces dark; covered with excreta. 
Adulteration of the product was charged in the indictment for the 
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
animal or vegetable substance.
On June 3, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the 
indictment and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. F. MAKVIN, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 8,1913.
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