12534. Adulteration of shell es'SS.    TJ. S. v. James A. Ejsrsleston (The Red-
fruit Produce Co.).     Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50 and costs.     (F. & D.
No. 18307.    I. S. No. 6936-v.)
On May 5, 1924, the United States attorney for the Western 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 
James A. Eggleston, trading as the Redfruit Produce Co., Kingfisher, Okla., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
on or about August 6, 1923, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of 
Texas, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was 
labeled in part: " The Redfruit Pro. Co. Kingfisher, Okla."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,080 eggs 
from the shipment showed that 184, or 17 per cent of those examined, were 
inedible eggs, consisting of mixed or white rots and heavy blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and putrid and de- 
composed animal substance.
On May 5, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information^ 
andthe court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.