5798. Adulteration of eggs. 17. S. * * * v. Mitchell Produce Co., a cor- 
poration. Plea of guilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. No. 8251. I. S. No. 
1350-m.)
On June 14, 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 the Mitchell 
Produce Co., a corporation, Mitchell, S. D., alleging shipment by said com- 
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about September 15, 1916, 
from the State of South Dakota into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity 
of eggs which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results:
Eggs unfit for food purposes  (average of four cases)   (per
cent) 
13.3
Eggs unfit for food purposes   (average of ten cases)   (per
cent) 
14. 7
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On October 5, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
OABL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.