10335.?Adulteration  of shell  eggs.     U.  S.     *     *     *     v. William  E.  Seaman
(Seaman Produce Co.).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. &
D. No. 14550.    I. S. No. 336-t.)
On May 31, 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?
William B. Seaman, trading as the Seaman Produce Co., Ponca City, Okla.,?
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about July 7, 1920, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas,?
of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 4 cases taken?
from the consignment, each Case containing 360 eggs, showed the presence of 255,?
or 17.7 per cent, inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots,?
moldy eggs, spot rots, heavy blood rings, and chick rots.
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?
substance.
On January 25, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.