5888.  Adulteration of bKans.    U. S.    *    *    *    v. Old Dutch Market, Inc.     Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 349-c.)
On November 15, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia, acting upon a report by the health officer of said District, filed in the police 
court of the District aforesaid an information against the Old Dutch Market, 
Inc., doing business at Washington, D. C, alleging that said company did offer 
for sale and sell at the District aforesaid, on October 2, 1917, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, a quantity of beans which were adulterated.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed animal and vege- 
table substance, to wit, weevil and dirt.
On November 15, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.