7011. Adulteration and misbranding: of cottonseed meal.    TJ.  S.    *    *    *   v.
Crescent Cotton Oil Co., a corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $100 
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 9300.     I. S. No. 9152-m.)
On April 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Crescent Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Memphis, Tenn., alleging shipment by
said company, under? the name of F. W. Brode & Co., in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about October 24, 1916, from the State of 
Tennessee into the State of Maine, of a quantity of an article, which was de- 
livered for shipment pursuant to a contract as " Prime 71% Ammonia 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 product to contain 6.63 per cent ammonia.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a product containing less than 7J per cent of ammonia had been substituted 
wholly or in part for 71 per cent of ammonia {cottonseed meal] which the 
article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was food in 
package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicu- 
ously marked on the outside of the package.
On June 28, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.