9388.  Adulteration    and    Misbranding of    Buclceye    G-ood    Cottonseed    Meal. 
V. S.     *     *     *     v. Imperial Cotto Sales Co., a Corporation.     Plea of
guilty.     Fine, $200 and  costs.     (F.  & D.  No.  13238.    I.  S.   Nos.  7076-r, 
7077-r,   7078-r,   7079-r,   7080-r.)
On January 24, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information in ten 
counts against the Imperial Cotto Sales Co., a corporation, Chicago, Ill., alleging
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
December 20, 1918, from the State of Mississippi into the State of Illinois, and 
thence into the State of Iowa, of quantities of Buckeye Good Cottonseed Meal, 
which in each of five shipments was adulterated and misbranded.
Analyses of samples of the article from each shipment by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of this department showed that It was low in protein and ammonia 
and high in crude fiber.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, cottonseed hulls, had been mixed and packed there- 
with so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, 
and had been substituted in part for cottonseed meal, which the article pur- 
ported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the following statements, to 
wit, "Cottonseed Meal," and " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 36% * * * Am- 
monia 7% Fibre 14%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the 
article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances contained therein, 
were false and misleading in that they represented to the purchaser that the 
article was cottonseed meal, and that it contained not less than 36 per cent 
of protein, not less than 7 per cent of ammonia, and not more than 14 per 
cent of fiber, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as 
to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was cottonseed 
meal, and that it contained not less than 36 per cent of protein, not less than 
7 per cent of ammonia, and not more than 14 per cent of fiber, whereas, in 
truth and in fact, it was not cottonseed meal, but was a mixture of cottonseed 
meal and cottonseed hulls, and it contained less than 36 per cent of protein, 
less than 7 per cent of ammonia, and more than 14 per cent of fiber.
On May 10, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $200 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.