5738.  Adulteration of shell eggs.    IT. S.    *     *    *     v. Marcus Silverberg and 
Abe   Silverberg   (Silverberg   Bros.).      Pleas   of   guilty.      Fine,   $50.
(F. & D. No. 8029.    I. S. No. 10827-m.)
On March 24, 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 
Marcus Silverberg and Abe Silverberg, copartners, trading as Silverberg Bros.» 
Elk Point, S. Dak., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the 
Food and Drags Act, on or about August 22, 1916, from the State of South 
Dakota into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of 17 cases, containing 6,120 eggs, by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this department showed 2,088 eggs, or 34.1 per cent, to be inedible and 
decomposed.
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 March 29, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
G. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture