5802. Misbranding of cottonseed meal or else. U. S. * * * v. Chielta- 
sna Cotton Oil Co. (Tie Hobart Cotton Oil Mill). Plea of guilty. 
Fine, $50 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8260.    I. S. No. 19700-m.)
On August 8, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, 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 Chickasha Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Chickasha, Okla., doing business 
under the trade name of The Hobart Cotton Oil Mill, Hobart, Okla., alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
October 19, 1916, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Iowa, of a 
quantity of an article labeled in part, '' Standard Choice Cotton Seed Meal or 
Cake," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results :
Crude  fiber   (per  cent) 
13.8
Protein (No.25)   (percent) 
38.1
These results show that the product contains less protein and 
more fiber than is guaranteed upon the label.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
the statement borne on the tags attached to the sacks, regarding it and the 
ingredients and substances "contained therein,  to wit,   " Guaranteed Analysis
* *   *   Protein   *   *   *   not ^g than 41 to 43 per cent    :,   .     y   Crude Fibre
* + * not more than 10J to 12 per cent," was false and misleading in that 
it represented that the article contained not less than 41 per cent of protein 
and not more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, and for the further reason that it 
was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purcaascr into the 
belief that it contained not less than 41 per cent of protein and not more than 
12 per cent of crude fiber, whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained less than 
41 per cent of protein and more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, to wit, approxi- 
mately 38.1 per cent of protein and approximately 13.8 per cent of crude fiber.
On September 19, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.