9045. Adulteration of shell eggs.   TJ. S.   *   *   *   v. John K. Kennedy (Iona Mercantile Co.).
Plea of guilty.   Fine, $25.   (F. & D: No. 9806.   I. S. No. 5555-r.)
On July 21, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of South Dakota, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United 
States for said district an information against John H. Kennedy, trading as long Mer- 
cantile Co., Iona, S. Dak., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the 
FoodanclDrugs Act, on or about August 10, 1918, from the State of South Dakota into 
the State of Nebraska, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed 233, or 12.9 per cent, inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white 
rots, spot rots, heavy blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On August 8, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, and the 
court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.