8430.?Adulteration,   of  shell  eggs.     TJ.   S.     *      *      *     v.  James Virgil  Boring
and Thomas Chester Boring (J. V. Boring- & Bro.). Plea, of guilty;?
Fine, $25.     (R & D. No. 8940.    I. S. No. 9507-p.)
On April 7, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
James Virgil Boring and Thomas Chester Boring, copartners, trading as J. V.?
Boring & Bro., Houston, Miss., alleging shipment by said defendants, in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 24, 1917, from the State of?
Mississippi into the State of Tennessee, of a quantity of shell eggs which were?
adulterated.
Examination of 20 cases (180 eggs from each case), taken from the shipment,?
by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed that 578 eggs, or 16.05 per?
cent, were inedible.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On April 6, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of?
the defendant firm, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.