5569. Adulteration of milk.    IT.  S.    * 
grullty.    Fine, $50 and costs.
10952-m.)
*     *     v. Albert J. Keirle.     Plea of
(F. & D.  No. 7960.    I.  S. Nos.  10943-m,
On March 5, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Albert 
J. Keirle, Bunker Hill, Ill., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 15, 1916, and August 18, 1916, 
from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, of quantities of milk which 
was adulterated.
Analysis of samples of the article in each shipment by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of this department showed the following results:
The  above  analysis  shows  subdivision  1 to be  watered  and 
partially skimmed.
The above analysis shows that subdivision 1 has been partially 
skimmed.
Adulteration of the article in the shipment on August 15, 1916, was alleged 
in the information for the reason that a certain substance, to wit, water, had 
been mixed with said article so as to Teduce and lower and injuriously atEeet 
its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part foT milk, 'which the 
article purported to "be; and for the further reason that a. certain valuable con- 
stituent thereof, to wit, butter fat, had been in part abstracted from the said 
article.
Adulteration -?f the article in the shipment on August 18, 1916, was alleged 
for the reason that a certain valuable constituent thereof, to wit, butter fat, had 
been in part abstracted from the said article.
On June 4, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
O. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.