12960. Adulteration   of   shell   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   Benjamin   Franklin   Jones.
Tx-ied   to   the   eonrt   and   a   jury.     Verdict   of   grnilty.     Fine,   830.
(F. & D. No. 17934.    I. S. Nos. 4577-v, 4578-v, 4822-v.)
On April 2, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Benjamin Franklin Jones, Paint Rock, Ala., alleging shipment by said de- 
fendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, in various consignments, one 
shipment on or about July 27, and two shipments on August 3, 1923, respec- 
tively, from the State of Alabama into the State of Tennessee, of quantities 
of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Analyses by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 2,160 eggs, 
1,620 eggs, and 720 eggs from the respective consignments showed that 228 
eggs, 258 eggs, and 157 eggs, respectively, (10.6 per cent, 15.9 per cent, and 21.8 
per cent, respectively, of those examined) were inedible eggs, consisting of 
black rots, mixed rots, spot rots, and blood rings.
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 14, 1924, the case having come on for trial before the court and 
a jury, a verdict of guilty was returned, and the court imposed a fine of $30.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.