12933. Misbranding: of buttear.    C. S. v. Beatrice Creamery Co.. a Corpora 
tion.     Plea  of   guilty.     Fine,   $50.      (F.   &  D.   No.   18744.     I.   S.  No.
15163-v.) 
On August 6, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 the 
Beatrice Creamery Co., a corporation, trading at Chicago, Ill., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about
January 22, 1924, from the State of Illinois into the District of Columbia, of 
a quantity of butter which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
"Pasteurized Meadow Gold Butter * * * Beatrice Creamery Company 
Contents One Pound Net Weight."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 120 prints 
from the consignment showed that the average net weight of the said prints 
was 15.6 ounces.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in counts 1 and 2 of the information 
for the reason that the statement " Contents One Pound Net Weight," borne 
on the packages containing the article, was false and misleading, in that the 
said statement represented that the packages contained 1 pound of butter, and 
for the further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive 
and mislead the purchaser into the belief that the said packages contained 1 
pound net of butter, whereas each of said packages did not contain 1 pound net 
of butter but did contain a less amount.
Misbranding was alleged in count 3 of the information for the reason that 
the article was food in package form and the quantity of the contents was not 
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On December 31, 1924, a plea of guilty to count 3 of the information was 
entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of 
$50.    Counts 1 and 2 of the information were dismissed.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.