9923. Misbranding of cottonseed cake.     U. S.     *     *      *     v. Osage  Cotton Oil
Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D.
No.  11120.    I.   S. No.  10826-r.)
On June 28, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern 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 
Osage Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, trading at Tulsa, Okla., alleging shipment 
by said company, on or about June 10, 1918, 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 of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the average net weight of 35 sacks was 96.46 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 article, regarding the said article, was false and mis- 
leading in that it represented that each of the said sacks contained 99 pounds 
of the article and for the further reason that the article was labeled as afore- 
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that each of the 
said sacks contained 90 pounds thereof, whereas, in truth and in fact, each of 
the said sacks did not contain 99 pounds of the said article, but did contain 
a less amount.
On September 30, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.