6741.  Adulteration of shell cgss.    V. S.    *     *     *    v. John T. Bellman.    Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 8034.    I. S. No. 11202-m.)
On March 19, 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 
John T. Bellman, Yankton, S. Dak., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 13, 1916, from the State 
of South Dakota into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of eggs which were 
adulterated.
Examination of 4 cases, containing 684 eggs, by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this department showed 109 eggs, or 15.9 per cent, to be inedible and decom- 
posed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
Is consisted In part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On March 22, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
O. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.