7583. Misbranding of oat feed.     TJ. S.     *     *     *?     v. Q,nalter Oats  Co., a Cor 
poration.    Plea of guilty.   -Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 10439. 
I.   S.   No.   11727-r)
On September 28, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Iowa, 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 
Quaker Oats Co., a corporation doing business at Fort Dodge, Iowa, alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, 
on or about January 16, 1918, from the State of Iowa into the State of Minne- 
sota, of a quantity of an article, invoiced as " Oat Feed," which was mis- 
branded.    The goods were reshipped from Minnesota to Wisconsin.
Examination of a sample of the article by an inspector of the State of Wis- 
consin, authorized to investigate violations of the Food and Drugs Act, showed 
that none of the sacks in the shipment bore a statement of the quantity of the 
contents thereof.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the 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 January 13, 1920, 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.