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On August 18, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against John Bostock, 
trading at Blue Hill, Nebr.,'alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation 
?of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about December 9, 1922, from the State of 
Nebraska into the State of Colorado, of a quantity of shell eggs which were 
adulterated.    The article was labeled in part: " J. Bostock, Upland, Nebr."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,800 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 143, or 7.94 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, and spot rots.
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 10, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
H
.QWABD M. ,GOKE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.