12493. Misbranding of cottonseed feed.    IT.  S.  v.  Southern  Cotton  Oil  Co.,
a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, 825.     (P. & D. No. 17798.     I. S. 
No. 1458-v.)
On November 30, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information 
against the Southern Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, trading at Goldsboro, N. C, 
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on 
or about November 1, 1922, from the State of North Carolina into the State of 
Virginia, of a quantity of cottonseed feed which was misbranded. The article 
was labeled in part: (Tag) "Scoco Cottonseed Feed Guaranteed Analysis 
Protein 36% * * * Manufactured By The Southern Cotton Oil Co. Char- 
lotte, N. C."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 34.13 per cent of protein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 36%," borne on the 
tags attached to the sacks containing the article, regarding the said article 
and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and mislead- 
ing in that the said statement represented that the article contained not less 
than 36 per cent of protein, and for the further reason that it was labeled as 
aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it 
contained not less than 36 per cent of protein, whereas, in truth and in fact, 
it did contain less than 36 per cent of protein, to wit, approximately 34.13 per 
cent of protein.
On June 12, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.