10685.?Adulteration  of  shell  pg'ss.     U.   S.     *     *      *     v.  Patrick  A.  Watson.
Plea of guilty.     Fine, $50 and  costs.     (F.  & D. No.  15989.     I.   S.  Nos.?
2002-t,  2004-t.)
On March 4, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an Information against?
Patrick A. Watson, Sayre, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant, in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 19, 1921, from the State of?
Oklahoma into the State of Kansas, of two consignments of shell eggs which?
were adulterated. The article was labeled in part, (tag) " * * * From P. A.?
Watson, Sayre, Ok."
Examination of 360 eggs from each of the consignments by the Bureau of?
Chemistry of this department showed that 288 and 249, respectively, or 80 and?
69.16 per cent of the total, were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed?
or white rots, moldy, spot rots, and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On March 13, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.