man Grain Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Pine, $1.     (F.  & D.
?     No. 11131.    I. S.  Nos. 12511-r, 12512-r,  12G0S-r,  12609-r.)
On April 6, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, act??
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of?
the United States for said district an information against the Viehman Grain?
Co., Minneapolis, Minn., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act, on February 27, Februai'y 21, February 18, and March?
30, 1918, from the State of Minnesota into the States of Vermont and Massachu??
setts, of a certain quantity of a certain article which was adulterated and mis-?
branded.    The article was labeled in part, " Diamond Dairy Feed."
Analysis of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that the ingredients were incorrectly declared, in that -the feed?
contained rice hulls which were not declared as one of the ingredients.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information?
in that a certain substance, to wit, rice hulls, had been mixed and packed with?
the article so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its strength and?
quality. Further adulteration was alleged in that a substance, to wit, rice?
hulls, had been substituted in part for dairy feed made from ground grain?
screenings; broken flax, broken wheat, seeds, rice feed, and oat feed, which the?
article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in that the statement on the tag?
attached to the sack containing the article, regarding the article, to wit, " Made?
From Ground Grain Screenings, Broken Flax, Broken Wheat, Seeds, Bice Feed,?
Oat Feed," was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser?
into the belief that the article was made from the ingredients above enumerated,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not such an article, but was a mixture?
containing rice hulls.
On April 0, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of .$1.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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