3945. Adulteration, of so-called cottonseed meal. U. S. v. J. Lindsay Wells (J. IAndsay Wells?
Commission Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, SI00 and costs. (F. & D. No. 5637. I. S. No.?
27822-e.)
On August 17, 1914, the United States attorney for the Western District oi Ten??
nessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against J. Lindsay Wells,?
trading under the firm name and style of J. Lindsay Wells Commission Co., Memphis,?
Tenn., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about January 4, 1913, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Indiana,?
of a quantity of so-called Sun Brand cottonseed meal, guaranteed to contain 41 to?
45 per cent protein, which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed the following results:
Moisture (per cent)?
?9.37
Ether extract (per cent)?
?3.85
Protein (per cent)?
?22. 82
Crude fiber (per cent)?
?25.48
Cottonseed hulls, by Fraps' method (per cent)?
?43. 93
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it?
was invoiced and sold and represented to be a cottonseed meal, and a substance?
other than cottonseed meal, that is to say, a iaxge quantity of cottonseed hulls, to wit,?
43.93 per c?nt, had been mixed and packed with said article in such a manner as?
to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the fur??
ther reason that said article was invoiced, sold, and represented to be cottonseed?
meal, and a substance other than cottonseed meal, namely, cottonseed hulls, in the?
proportion of, to wit, 43.93 per cent had been substituted in part for the article.
On February 1, 1915, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 30, 1915.
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