?249. Adulteration and Misbranding of cracked cottonseed cake or cottonseed meal.   U. S. 
*   *   *   v. Phoenix Cotton Oil Co., a corporation.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, SlOO and
costs.   (F. & D. No. 10051.   I. S. Nos. 15207-p, 15210-p.)
On July 18, 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 Phoenix Cotton Oil Co., a 
corporation, Memphis, Tenn., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on December 28, 1917 (2 shipments), from the State 
of Tennessee into the State of Iowa, of quantifies of an unlabeled article, but which 
was described in a contract of sale entered into by said defendant company as "Prime 
screened, cracked cottonseed cake, quality 7?% Ammonia" and one shipment of 
which was further invoiced as "7J% C/S Meal," which was adulterated and mis- 
branded.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed 7.29 per cent of ammonia in one shipment and 7.14 per cent of ammonia in 
the other shipment.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information for the 
reason that a substance, to wit, cottonseed meal containing less than an equivalent of 
1\ per cent of ammonia, had been substituted in whole or in part for cottonseed meal 
containing an equivalent of 7?per cent of ammonia, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article in each shipment was alleged for the reason that it was a 
cottonseed meal containing less than an equivalent of 7-| per cent of ammonia, and 
was offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, 
7J per cent cottonseed meal. Misbranding of the article was alleged for the further 
reason that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not 
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On November 20, 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.