5736. Adulteration of shell eggs.    V.  S.     *     *     *     v. Robert J. McVicke*.
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. No. 8026.    I. S. No. 10833-m.)
On July 2, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of South Dakota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against Robert J. Mi- 
ckey, Vermilion, S. Dak., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 29, 1916, from the State of South 
Dakota into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of 3 cases, containing 1,080 eggs, by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this department showed 393 eggs, or 36.4 per cent, to be inedible and decom- 
posed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On July 14, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
O. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.