9950. Misbranding of cottonseed meal. TJ. S. * * ? ?. John F. Smith, 
"William B. Traynor, Charles A. Peacock, and Francis W. Dewsoa 
(Shelby County Cotton Oil Mill). Pleas of nolo contendere. Fine, 
$50 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 11347.    I. S. No. 10901-r.)
On January 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed, in the 
District Court of the, United States for said district an information against 
John F. Smith, William B. Traynor, Charles A. Peacock, and Francis W. 
Dewson, trading as the Shelby County Cotton Oil Mill, Memphis, Tenn., alleging 
shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or
about January 3,1919, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Kentucky, 
of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 33.4 per cent of protein and 16.76 per 
cent of crude fiber.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statements appearing on the labels of the sacks containing the 
said article, to wit, "Cotton Seed Meal * * * Protein 36.00% * * * 
Fiber 15.00 [%]," were false and misleading in that they represented to 
purchasers thereof that the article contained not less than 36 per cent of 
protein and not more than 15 per cent of fiber, and for the further reason that 
the said article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead pur- 
chasers thereof into the belief that it contained not less than 36 per cent of 
protein and not more than 15 per cent of fiber, whereas, in fact and in truth, 
it did contain less than 36 per cent of protein and more than 15 per cent of 
fiber.
On October 5, 1921, the defendants entered pleas of nolo contendere to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.