0844. Misbranding of  cottonseed  cake.     U.   S.     *     *      *     v.   Liberty   Cotton
Oil  Co.,   a  Corporation.    Plea   of  guilty.    Fine,   $50.     (F.   &   D.   No.
14316.    I. S. No. 18801-r.)
OH April 4, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Liberty Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging 
shipment by said company, on or about November 19, 1919, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Oklahoma into the State 
of Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed cake which was misbranded.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 60 sacks 
from the consignment showed an average gross weight of 97.32 pounds and 
an average net weight of 96.70 pounds.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, " 100 lbs.—Gross 99 lbs. Net," borne on the tags 
attached to the sacks containing the said article, regarding the article, was false 
and misleading in that it represented that each of the said sacks weighed 
100 pounds gross and contained 99 pounds net of the said article, and for the 
further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and 
mislead the purchaser into the belief that each of the said sacks weighed 100 
pounds gross and contained 99 pounds net of the article, whereas, in truth 
and in fact, each of the said sacks did not weigh 100 pounds gross but did 
weigh a less amount, and each of the said sacks did not contain 99 pounds 
net of the article but did contain a less amount. Misbranding was alleged 
for the further reason that the said article was food in package form, and 
the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the 
outside of the packages.
On May 9, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.