11160.?Adulteration of shell egg's. V. S. v. Theodore B. Wood (Chickasha Hide 4b Produce Co.). Tried to the court and a jury. Verdict of? snilty. Fine, $100. (F. & D. No. 14510. I. S. No. 350-t.) On August 3, 1921, the Unitetd States attorney for the Eastern 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? Theodore B. Wood, trading as Chickasha Hide & Produce Co., Chickasha,? Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs? Act, on or about July 15, 1920, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of? Kansas, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was? labeled in part: " Chickasha Hide & Produce Co. Poultry, Butter, Eggs and? Hides Chickasha, Okla." Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of 720 eggs? from the consignment showed that 181, or 25.1 per cent of those examined,? were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots,? large blood rings, and blood rots. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason? that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid? animal substance. On November 16, 1922, the case having come on for final disposition before? the court and a jury, after the submission of evidence and argument by coun?? sel, the court delivered its charge to the jury which then retired and, after? due deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty. The court thereupon assessed? a fine of $100. O. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 90 BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. [Supplement 154,