9824. Adulteration of shell eggs.    U.  S.     *     *     *     v.  Isaac  Daniel McCor¬
mack (Brookland Feed Co.).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $10  and costs.
(F. & D. No. 13895.    I. S. No. 8427-r.)
On December 7, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Isaac 
Daniel Moorman, trading as the Brookland Feed Co., Brookland, Ark., alleg- 
ing shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about July 14, 1919, from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, 
of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 180 eggs from 
each of three cases-from the consignment showed the presence of 155, or 28.7 
per cent, inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, 
spot rots, and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On May 3, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.