1041.">.   Misbranding   of   Imtter.     II.   S.   v.   Ravenna   Creamery   Co.     Plea   of 
guilty.    Fine, $10 and costs.     (P. & D. No. 19262.    I. S. No. 20657-v.)
On February 3, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against the Ravenna 
Creamery Co., a corporation, Ravenna, Nebr., alleging shipment by said com- 
pany, in violation of the food and drugs act as amended, on or about June 6, 
1924, from the State of Nebraska into the State of Wyoming, of a quantity of 
butter which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " This Pack- 
age Contains One Pound Net Weight Pasteurized Creamery Butter * * * 
Ravenna Creamery Co. Ravenna. Nebraska."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 60 packages 
of the product showed that the average net weight of the packages examined 
was 15.72 ounces.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, " One Pound Net Weight," borne on the packages 
containing the said article, was false and misleading, in that it represented 
that each of said packages contained 1 pound net weight 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 each of said packages contained 1 
pound net weight, of butter, whereas each of said packages did not contain 1 
pound net weight of butter but did contain a less amount. Misbranding was 
alleged for the further 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 June 4, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.