5960. Adulteration of eggs. TJ. S. * * * v. George E. Scherer and Samuel 
J. Wetzel (G. E. Scherer & Co.). Pleas of guilty. Fine, $25 and 
costs     (F. & D. No. 8290.    I. S. No. 21440-m.)
On September 18, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against George E. Scherer 
and Samuel J. "Wetzel, trading as G. E. Scherer & Co., Hill City, Kans., alleging 
shipment "by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drags Act, on or 
about August 9, 1916, from the State of Kansas into the State of Colorado, of 
a quantity of eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it contained 53 per cent of rots and spots.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On October 9, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
CAUL VEOOJIAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.