6700. Adulteration and misbi-anding of cottonseed meal. U. S. * * * y.?
Thomas H. Pug-h and Joseph W. Pugh (Wilmot Oil Mill). Plea of?
guilt}'.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 9053.    I. S. No. 19972-m.)
On October 10. 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States- for said district an information against?
Thomas R. Pugh and Joseph "VY. Pugh, trading as the Wilmot Oil Mill, Wilmot,?
Ark., alleging the shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, on or about December 21, 1916, from the State of Arkansas into?
the State of Michigan, of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Danish?
Brand Cotton Seed Meal," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed the following result:
Protein (N x 6.25) (per cent)?
33.69
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the information for?
the reason that a substance, to wit, cottonseed hulls, had been mixed and packed?
therewith so as to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality and?
strength, and had been substituted in part for cottonseed meal, which the?
article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance for the reason that the?
statement, to wit, "Guaranteed Analysis * * * Protein 36 to 38.50?,*'?
borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the article, regarding it?
and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and misleading
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in that it represented that the article contained not less* than 36 per cent of
protein, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to
deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it contained not less
than 36 per cent of protein, whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained less
than 36 per cent of protein, to wit, approximately 33.69 per cent of protein,
and for the further reason that the statement, to wit, " Cotton Seed Meal,"?
borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the article, regarding it and
the ingredients and substances- contained therein, was false and misleading?
in that it represented that the article consisted exclusively of cottonseed meal,?
and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive?
and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it consisted exclusively of cot??
tonseed meal, whereas, in truth and in fact, it did not so consist, but con??
sisted of a mixture composed in part of added cottonseed hulls.
On March 25, 1919, the defendants entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
?T. R. RIGGS, Acting Secretary of 'Agriculture.