10443. Adulteration of shell eggs. IT. S. * * * v. Keddick Lee Cren shaw (R. L. Crenshaw). Plea of guilty. Fine, $25 and costs. (F. & D. No. 15840. I. S. No. 3352-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 Reddick Lee Crenshaw, trading as R. L. Crenshaw, Dyer, Tenn., alleging ship- ment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about September 21, 1921, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Alabama, of a quantity of an article of food, to wit. shell eggs, which was adulterated. Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of a sample of the article, consisting of 540 eggs taken from 3 cases, showed the presence of 9 black rots, 15 mixed or white rots, 6 spot rots, and 10 blood rings, a total of 40, or 7.4 per cent, inedible eggs. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance. On April 24, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to tlie information,, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs. C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.