10028.?Adulteration  and   misbranding-  of   barley  feed.    IT.   S.     *     *     *     v.
Sheffield Elevator Co., a Corporation.    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25.
(F. & D. No. 14734.    I. S. No. 8974-r..)
On October 10, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota,?
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 Sheffield?
Elevator Co., a corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, on or about October 6, 1919, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as?
amended, from the State of Minnesota into the State of Missouri, of a quantity?
of barley feed which was adulterated and misbranded.
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BUREAU OF  CHEMISTRY.	
[Supplement 131,
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it contained from 12.5 per cent to 16.5 per cent of oats,?
including wild oats and a few weed seeds.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
certain substances, to wit, oats, wild oats, and weed seeds, had been mixed and?
packed therewith so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and?
had been substituted in part for barley feed, which the said article pur??
ported to be.
Misbranding- was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package?
form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously?
marked on the outside of the package.
On October 10, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.