11027.?Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    U.  S. v. 250 Sacks of Cottonseed
Meal.    Default  decree  of  condemnation, forfeiture,  and  destruc??
tion.     (F. & D. No. 15819.    I. S. No. 9373-t.    S. No. E-3827.)
On March 30, 1922, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 250 sacks of cottonseed meal, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at River Junction, Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
the Planters Oil Co., Albany, Ga., on or about February 20, 1922, and trans??
ported from the State of Georgia into the State of Florida, and charging mis??
branding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in?
part: "Guaranteed Analysis. Ammonia (Actual and potential) 7.00 per cent?
(Equivalent to Protein 36.00 per cent) Phosphoric Acid 2.00/per cent Potash'?
(K20) 1.00 per cent   Made from short staple cotton seed only."
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was transported in?
violation of the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, in that the said sacks?
were labeled as follows, " 100 lbs. Gross. 99 lbs. Net. Second Class Cotton Seed?
Meal Manufactured By Planters Oil Co. Albany, Georgia. Guaranteed," which?
said statements were false and misleading in that the said article did not con??
tain the substances hereinbefore set forth as described in the labels, but was?
deficient in ammonia and contained peanut hulls and excessive quantities of?
fiber.
On July 10, 1922, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that?
the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Aotinff Secretary of Agriculture.