10413. Adulteration and Misbranding of cottonseed meal.   U. S.    *    *     *    v.
BJl Dorado Oil Mills &. Fertilizer Co., a corporation. Plea of 
guilty.    Fine, $20 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 12351     I. S. No. 12001-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., El Dorado, Ark., alleging shipment 
by said company, on or about March 1, 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 unlabeled cottonseed meal which was adulterated and misbranded. 
The article was invoiced as 41 per cent protein cottonseed meal.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the presence of approximately 38.65 per cent of protein.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a cottonseed meal of less than 41 per cent protein had been substituted 
wholly or in part for cottonseed meal of 41 per cent protein, which the said 
article purported 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 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.