5947. Misbi-anding- of " Eastern Star Maple, JFia-v-or Sugar Butter Mixture." 
IT. &. * * * v. Frederick •©. Bailey, William T. Bailey, and J. Royal 
Bailey (Marshalltown Syrup and Sugssx Co.).    Pleas of guilty.    Fine,
$25 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8244.    I. S. No. 10145-1.)
On June 6, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by. the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Frederick O. Bailey, William T. Bailey and J. Royal Bailey, trading as the 
Marshalltown Syrup and Sugar Co., Marshalltown, Iowa, alleging shipment 
hy said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about Sep- 
tember 29, 1915, from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, of a quantity 
of an article labeled in part, " Eastern Star Maple Flavor Sugar Butter Mix- 
ture * * *, Put up by Marshalltown Syrup & Sugar Co., Marshalltown, 
Iowa," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
Solids (hy drying)   (percent) 
91.7
Nonsugar solids (per cent) 
19.7
Sucrose (Olerget)   (percent) 
54.3
Reducing sugars as invert (per cent) 
17. 7
Commercial glucose (factor 163)   (percent) 
38.3
Polarization, direct at 26° C. (°V)... 
+118.4
Polarization, invert at 26° C. <°V) 
+ 48.0
Polarization, invert at 87° C. (°Y) 
+ 62.4
Product contains more than 25 per cent glucose. 
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statements appearing on the label concerning the article and the 
ingredients and substances contained therein, to wit, " 25% Corn Syrup * * * 
small amount of corn syrup to prevent crystallization," were false and mis- 
leading in that they represented to purchasers that the article contained not 
more than 25 per cent of corn sirup, and for the further reason that it was 
labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead purchasers into the belief 
that it contained not more than 25 per cent of corn sirup, whereas, in truth 
and in fact, it contained more than 25 per cent of corn sirup.
On December 19, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed -a fine of $25 and costs.
O. F. MAEVIH, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.