5282.   Misbranding of  cottonseed  meal.     V.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Tecumseh  Oil   & 
Cotton   Co.,   a   corporation.     Plea   of  gnilty.     Fine,   $50.      (F.   &  D.
No.  7706.     I. S. No.  16082-1.)
On November 13, 1916, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Tecumseh Oil & Cotton Co., a corporation, doing business at Tecumseh, 
Okia., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Pood and Drugs 
Act, on or about December 12, 1915, from the State of Oklahoma into the State 
of Iowa, of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Good Luck Brand Cotton 
Seed Meal," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
Crude fiber (per cent) 
13.82
Nitrogen   (per cent) 
5.63
Ammonia (percent) 
6.82
Protein   (per cent) 
35.19
The above examination shows the article to contain less than 8 
per cent ammonia, less than 41 per cent protein, less than 6J per 
cent nitrogen, and more than 9 per cent crude fiber. 
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that the statement, to wit, "Analysis Ammonia 8 per cent Protein 41 
per cent Nitrogen 6J per cent * * * Crude Fibre Not Over 9 per cent," 
borne on the tags attached to the sacks regarding the article and the ingredi- 
ents and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it 
represented that said article contained not less than 8 per cent of ammonia, 
not less than 41 per cent of protein, not less than 6J per cent of nitrogen, and 
not more than 9 per cent of crude fiber; and for the further reason that it 
was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the 
belief that it contained not less than 8 per cent of ammonia, not less than 41 
per cent of protein, not less than 61 per cent of nitrogen, and not more than 9 
per cent of crude fiber, when, in truth and in fact, it contained less than 8 per 
cent of ammonia, less than 41 per cent of protein, less than 6J per cent of nitro- 
gen, and more than 9 per cent of crude fiber.
On January 30, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
B. A. PEAESON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.