10536. Misbi*andin?   of peanut  feed.    V. S.     *     *      *     v.   Steele  By-Products
Co.,   Inc.,   a   Corporation.     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $50.      (F.   &   T>.
No. 14909.    I.  S. No.  9084-t.)
On June 21, 1921, the United States attorney for ihe Northern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Steele By-Products Co., Inc., a corporation, Birmingham, Ala., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, on or about July 27, 1920, in violat on of the Food and 
Drugs Act, from the State of Alabama into the State of Georgia, of a quantity 
of peanut feed which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: "Lit- 
tle Coon Peanut Feed * * * Distributed By Steele By-Products Co., Inc.,. 
Birmingham, Ala.    *    *    * "
Analys's of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 26.3 per cent of protein, 4.00 per cent of 
crude fat, and 33.4 per cent of crude fiber.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it was labeled on the tag attached to the sack containing the said article, 
" Guaranteed Analysis Prote'n, not less than 30.00%, Fat, not less than 6.00% 
* * * Fibre, not more than 25.00%," which statement regarding the article 
and the percentage of protein, fat. and fiber, respectively, contained therein, 
was false and misleading, and for the further reason that the article was 
labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser thereof into- 
the belief that it contained not less than 30 per cent of protein, not less than 
6 per cent of fat, and not more than 25 per cent of fiber, whereas, in truth and 
in fact, the said article contained less than 30 per cent of protein, less than 6 
per cent of fat, and more than 25 per cent of fiber.
On November 10, 1923. a plea of guilty to the informat'on was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.