9131. Adulteration of milk. U.. S. * * * v. Mrs. Margaret Alters.. Plea of nolo contendere to count 1 of the indictment. Fine, $75 and costs. Count 2 dismissed. (F. & D. No. 10337. I. S. Nos. 9374-p, 10057-p.) On October 9, 1919, the Grand Jurors of the United States within and for the Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- culture, upon presentment by the United States attorney for said district, re- turned in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an Indictment in 2 counts against Mrs. Margaret Albers, Aviston, III., charging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on Sep- tember 18, 1917, from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of milk which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part, " From Mrs. W. Albers, Aviston, Ill." Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- ment showed the presence of added water and of insoluble foreign matter. The article was very dirty. Adulteration of the article was charged in the indictment for the reason that a substance, to wit, added water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for milk, which the article purported to be, and for the further reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy animal substance. On October 20, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to count 1 of the indictment, and the court imposed a fine of $75 and costs. Count 2 of the indictment was dismissed. E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.