10411. Misbranding of cottonseed  cafee.    T7.  S.     *     *      *     v.  El Dorado  Oil
Mills & Fertilizer Co., a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $20 
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 11622.    I. S. No. 11957-r.)
On July 20, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas, 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 
El Dorado Oil Mills & Fertilizer Co., a corporation, El Dorado, Ark., alleging 
shipment by said company, on or about January 15, 1919, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Arkansas into the State of 
Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed cake which was misbranded. The article 
was labeled in part: "100 Lbs. Gross 99 Lbs. Net Single Hump" (cut of 
camel) " Brand Cotton Seed Meal or Cracked Screened Cake    *    *    *."
Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of 65 sacks 
of the product taken from the consignment showed that the average net weight 
of the sacks examined was 97.15 pounds.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
the statements, to wit, " 100 Lbs. Gross 99 Lbs. Net," borne on the tags attached 
to the sacks containing the article, regarding the article, were false and mislead- 
ing in that they 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 99 pounds of the said article, whereas, in truth and in fact, 
each of the said sacks did not contain 99 pounds of the article, but did contain 
a less amount. Misbranding was alleged for the further 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 February 21, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.