12941. Misbranding of cottonseed feed.    V. S. v. Planters Cotton Oil Co., a
Corporation.    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D.  No.  18575.    I.  S. 
No. 23452-t.)
At the November, 1924, term of the United States District Court within and 
for the Southern District of Georgia, the United States attorney for the said 
district, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court an information against the Planters Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, 
Augusta, Ga., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and 
drugs act, on or about February 6, 1923, from the State of Georgia into the 
State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of cottonseed feed which was mis- 
branded. The article was labeled in part: " Danish Brand Cotton Seed Feed 
Guaranteed Analysis Protein 36.00% Equivalent Nitrogen 5.75%."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 5.41 per cent of nitrogen, equivalent to 
33.81 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% Equivalent 
Nitrogen 5.75%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the 
article, was false and misleading, in that the said statement represented that 
the article contained not less than 36 per cent of protein, equivalent to 5.75 
per cent of nitrogen, and for the further reason that it was labeled as afore- 
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it con- 
tained not less than 36 per cent of protein, equivalent to 5.75 per cent of nitro- 
gen, whereas the said article contained less than 36 per cent of protein, to wit, 
33.81 per cent of protein, equivalent to 5.41 per cent of nitrogen.
On November 22, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.