8653.?Misbranding of cottonseed meal.     XT. S.     *     *      *     v. Thomas R. Pugh
and Josewli W. Pugli (Wilmot Oil  Mill).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $20
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 12470.     I.   S. Ncs. 6887-r,  12034-r.)
On or about August 6, 1920, 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 Thomas R. Pugh ancl Joseph W. Pugh, copartners, trading as the?
Wilmot Oil Mill, Wilmot, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendants, in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about February 3 and 18,
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1919, from the State of Arkansas into the States of Missouri and Kansas, of?
quantities of cottonseed meal which was misbranded.
?Examination of the shipments showed that the sacks were unlabeled.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not?
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On November 1, 1920, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.