10425. Adulteration of shell  eggs.    IT.  S.     *     *     *     v.  liee  Dixon  Rucker.
Plea  of g-uilty.    Fine,  $1.     (F.  &  D.   No.  13896.    I.   S.  No.  334-t.)
On July 28, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Lee Dixon 
Rucker, Plainview, Tex., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 8, 1920, from the State of Texas into the 
State of Kansas, of a quantity of an article of food, to wit, shell eggs, which was 
adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article, consisting of 3 cases or 1,080 eggs, 
by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, showed the presence of 172, or 
15.92 per cent, inedible eggs, consisting of 43 black rots, 73 mixed or white rots, 
1 moldy egg. 44 spot rots, 2 blood rings, and 9 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 October 21, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $1.
C. W. PUGSLEY. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.