7856.  Adulteration of milk.    U. S.   *    *    *   v. Amos C. Elms.    Plea of guilty.
Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8402.    I. S. Nos. 2880-m, 2203-p.)
On December 12, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Hampshire, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Amos C. Elms, Lisbon, N. H., alleging shipment by said defendant, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 21, 1917, and July 2, 1917, 
from the State of New Hampshire into the State of Massachusetts, of quan- 
tities of milk which was adulterated.
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed that in the 
shipment of May 21, 1917, the milk had been skimmed and watered, and that 
in the shipment of July 2, 1917, the milk had been skimmed.
Adulteration of the milk shipped May 21, 1917, was alleged in the informa- 
tion for the reason that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality, and had 
been substituted in part for milk, which the article purported to be, and for 
the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butter fat, 
had been wholly or in part abstracted.
Adulteration of the milk shipped July 2, 3917, was alleged for the reason that 
a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butter fat, had been wholly or In 
part abstracted.
On April 17, 1919, plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant, and 
the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.