11924. Adulteration and misliraiidins; of canned corn.    U. S. v. 325 Cases of
Canned Corn. Default decree entered ordering product sold for 
stock feed.     (F. & D. No. 17501.    I. S. No. 3432-v.    S. No. E-4384.)
On May 14, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 325 cases of canned corn, at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by 0. W. Baker & Sons, from Middletown, 
Del., on or about October 19, 1922, and transported from the State of Delaware 
into the State of Florida, and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: 
"Morning Star    *    *    *    Sugar Corn."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance, to wit, scrapings from corncobs, had been mixed and packed there- 
with so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength 
and had been substituted in whole or in part for the said article. Adulteration 
was alleged for the further reason that the article consisted in part of a filthy 
vegetable  substance.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was labeled, " Sugar 
Corn," and bore a design showing whole ears of corn, which said statement 
and design were false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, 
since the said article consisted in part of corncob scrapings. Misbranding 
was alleged for the further reason that the article was offered for sale under 
the distinctive name of another article, to wit, sugar corn.
On November 3, 1923, no claimant having appeared for the property, a 
decree of the court was entered adjudging the product to be subject to con- 
demnation and ordering that it be sold for stock feed.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.