10479. Adultei'ation of ice cream cones.     U. S.     *     *      *     v. Armour & Co.,
a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $400. (F. & D. No. 15576. I. S. 
Nos. 229-r, 230-r, 16588-r.)
On February 6, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of South Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information 
against Armour & Co., a corporation, doing business at Colambia, S. C, alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
March 17, 1920, from the State of South Carolina into the State of North 
Carolina, of two consignments, and into the State of Georgia, of one con- 
signment, of an article of food labeled in part " Goodie Cones," which was 
adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was partly decomposed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the informatioa for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On June 7, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $400.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.