10865.?Adulteration   of   shell   eggs.     TJ.   S.   v.   Martin   N.   Carson.     Plea   of
guilty.    Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 14528.    I. S. No. 2308-t.)
On May 6, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Mis??
sissippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against Martin N.?
Carson, trading and doing business under the name and style of M. N. Carson,?
Conehatta, Miss., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act, on or about August 17, 1920, from the State of Mississippi?
into the State of Louisiana, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of a sample?
of the article consisting of 360 eggs showed the presence of 42 inedible eggs,?
or 11.7 per cent, consisting of 17 black rots, 16 mixed or white rots, and 9?
spot rots.
On November 8. 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.