5201.?Adulteration  of shell  eggs.    TJ.  S.    *    *    *   V. Leaniler A.  Goodwin  et
al.  (Goodwin & Jean).     Plea of gtiilty.    Fine, $10 and costs.     (F.  &
D. No. 8878.     I. S. No.  85X)3-p.)
On May 23, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
Leander A. Goodwin and Robert F. Jean, trading as Goodwin & Jean, Bates-?
ville, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, on or about July 26, 1917, from the State of/Arkansas into the?
State of Missouri, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article consisting of 1 case of 30 dozen eggs?
by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed that 180 eggs, or 50?
per cent, were inedible.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 12, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant firm, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.