9618. Adulteration and misbranding of cottonseed meal. U. S. * * * 
v. Natchitoches Cotton Oil Co., a Corporation. Plea of guilty. 
Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 11948.    I. S. No. 11990-r.)
On April 26, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information in two counts 
against the Natchitoches Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Natchitoches, La., alleg- 
ing shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as 
amended, on or about February 17, 1919, from the State of Louisiana into the 
State of Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was adulterated and 
misbranded.   The article was sold as 41 per cent cottonseed meal.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 36.16 per cent of protein.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, a cottonseed meal containing less than 41 per cent of 
protein, had been substituted in whole or in part for cottonseed meal containing 
41 per cent of protein, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form, and the quantity of the contents thereof was not plainly and conspicu- 
ously marked on the outside of the package.
On October 18, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
'Of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $75 on count one 
and $25 on count two, together with the costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.