7734. Adulteration of milk,   IT. S.   *    *   *   v. Pevely Dairy Co., a Corpora 
tion.    Plea of nolo contendere to count 1 of the indictment.     Fine, 
$100 and costs.    Remaining counts of indictment dismissed.     (F. &
D. No. 10403.    I. S. No. 9727-p.)
On October 9, 1919, the Grand Jurors of the United States of America within 
and for the Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, upon presentment by the United States attorney for said dis- 
trict, returned an indictment in 6 counts in the District Court of the United 
States for the district aforesaid, against the Pevely Dairy Co., a corporation, 
St. Louis,* Mo., charging shipment by said company in the first count of said 
indictment, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on September 26, 1917, from 
the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of alleged milk 
which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it contained added water, that it was dirty by the 
sediment test, and that B. coli were present.
Adulteration of the article was charged in the first count of the indictment 
for the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed 
animal substance.
On May 22, 1920, a plea of nolo contendere \^as entered on behalf of the 
defendant company to count 1 of the indictment, and the court imposed a fine 
of $100 and costs.   The remaining counts of the indictment were dismissed.
E. D. BAIL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.