12976. Adulteration of shell eg'gs.    U. S. v. Latham B. Harrison, Benjamin
G.  Harrison,  and  Harry D.  Harrison   (Harrison  Mercantile   Co.). 
Pleas of guilty.    Fine, $25.    (F. & D. No. 18086.    I. S. No. 5353-v.)
On October 9, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Latham 
E. Harrison, Benjamin G. Harrison, and Harry D. Harrison, copartners, 
trading as Harrison Mercantile Co., St. Francis, Kans., alleging shipment by 
said defendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about August 20, 
1923, from the State of Kansas into the State of Nebraska, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: "From 
Harrison Merc. Co. St. Francis, Kans."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,260 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 102 eggs, or 8 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, and 
blood rings.
Adulteration 'of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On December 1, 1924, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.