12909. Adulteration of shell eg-grs.    V. S. v. "William W. Lomenack (Giliner
Produce Co.).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $10.     (F. & D. No. 18097.    I.  S. 
Nos.   5952-V,   5955-V,   5960-v.)
On March 12, 1924, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against 
William W. Lomenack, trading as the Gilmer Produce Co., Gilmer, Texas, 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
in various consignments, namely, on or about June 30, July 2 and 3, 1923, 
respectively, from the State of Texas into the State of Louisiana, of quantities
of shell  eggs  which  were adulterated.   The  article  was  labeled   in   part: 
"From Gilmer Produce Co. Gilmer, Texas."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 720 eggs, 
702 eggs, and 936 eggs from the different consignments showed that 91 eggs, 
182 eggs, and 197 eggs, respectively, or 12.6 per cent, 25.9 per cent, and 21 
per cent, respectively, of those examined, were inedible eggs consisting of black 
rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, blood rings, enlarged embryos, and a few 
moldy eggs.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and putrid and decomposed 
animal substance.
On October 6, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.