G710.  Adwlteration  of  tomatoes.    XI.  S.    *    *    *    v.  Herbert  Hi.   Messick  and?
Susie G.  Messielc.     Pleas  of guilty.     Fine, $25  and  costs.     (F,   & D,
No. 0069.     I. S. Nos. 9384-p, 9385-p.)
On November 15, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Mary??
land, 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 Her??
bert N. Messick and Su^ie G. Messick, Quantico, Md., alleging shipment by?
said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or aboxit?
September 8, 1917 (2 shipments), from the State of Maryland into the State?
of Missouri, of quantities of an article labeled in part, *' Holland Brand?
Tomatoes," or  " Wicomico Queen Tomatoes," which was adulterated.
Analysis of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart-?
ment showed from the immersion refractometer readings of the juice at 20? <i?
the addition of water to the tomatoes.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in substance in?
the information for the reason that a certain substance, to wit, water, had?
been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower and reduce and injuriously?
affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in whole or in part?
for tomatoes, which the article purported to be.
On November 15, 1918, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs'.
J. K, RIGGS, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.