8586.  Misbranding of cottonseed cake.     17. S.     *     *     *     v. Charles A. Ailing1?
(Pine Bluff Cotton Oil Co.).     Plea of snilty.     Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No.
12003.    I. S. No. 19435-p.)
At the April, 1920, term of court within and for the Eastern District of?
Arkansas the United States attorney for said district, acting upon a report by?
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court aforesaid an informa??
tion against Charles A. Ailing, trading as the Pine Bluff Cotton Oil Co., Pine?
Bluff, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendant, in the name of L. C. Campbell?
& Co., in violation of the Pood and Drugs Act, on or about February 23, 1918,?
from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of cotton??
seed meal which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part " Silo Brand?
Cotton Seed Cake."
Aualysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it contained 5.48 per cent of total nitrogen, equivalent?
to 6.65 per cent of ammonia, and 34.21 per cent of protein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that the following statement, to wit, "Ammonia not less than 7i?, Protein not?
less than 38.50?,'' borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the?
article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances contained therein,?
was false and misleading in that it represented that the article contained not?
less than 7? per cent of ammonia and not less than 38.50 per cent of protein,?
and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive?
and mislead the purchaser into the belief that the article contained not less?
than 7$ per cent of ammonia and not less than 38.50 per cent of protein,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained less ammonia and protein.
On September 27, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.