3456.  Misbranding: of peanut meal.    V. S. v. Dothan Oil Mill Co.    Plea of 
guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. No. 18470.    I. S. No. 3328-v.)
On May 29, 1924, the United Stntes attorney for the Middle District of Ala- 
bama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
"ourt of the United States for said district an information against the Dothan 
)il Mill Co., a corporation, Dothan, Ala., alleging shipment by said company, 
a violation of the food and drugs act, on or about January 30, 1923, from the 
State of Alabama into the State of Florida, of a quantity of peanut meal which 
ras misbranded. The article was labeled in part " First Grade Peanut Meal 
lanufactured By Pothan Oil Mill Company Dothan, Alabama. Guaranteed 
malys's Protein 45.00 p. c."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
lent showed that the said sample contained 41.46 per cent of protein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
he statement, to wit, " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 45.00 p. c," borne on the
ing, in that the said statement represented that the article contained not less 
than 45 per cent of protein, and for the further reason that it was labeled as- 
aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it 
contained not less than 45 per cent of protein, whereas it did contain less than. 
45 per cent of protein. 
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On March 10, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10, ,
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.