10424. Misbranding of strawberries. U. S. * * * v. Richard T. Lewis 
et al. (Hmnboldt Fruit Growers' Assoc). Plea of guilty. Fine, 
$15 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 15435.    I. S. Nos. lll-t, 6014-t.)
On January 10, 1922, 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 
Richard T. Lewis, Milton J. Hamilton, John E. Matthews, and Dee W. Senter, 
trading as the Humboldt Fruit Growers' Assoc, Humboldt, Tenn., alleging ship- 
ment by said defendants, on or about May 7 and 11, 1921, respectively, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Tennessee into 
the States of Illinois and New York, respectively, of quantities of strawberries 
in crates, which were misbranded. The crates bore no label or statement rela- 
tive to contents, weight, or measure.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly 
and conspicuously marked on the outside of tha package.
On April 27, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendants, and the court imposed a fiiie of $15 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.