On November 8, 1924, tlie United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
North Carolina, 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 Robeson Mfg. Co., a corporation, Lumberton, N. C., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about November 
39, 1923, from the State of North Carolina into the State of New Jersey, of a 
quantity of cottonseed meal which was adulterated. The article was labeled 
in part: "Guaranteed Analysis Protein (minimum) 36.00% Ammonia (mini- 
mum)  7.00%    *    *    *    Crude Fibre (maximum) 14.00%."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it contained 6.66 per cent of ammonia, 34.25 per cent 
of protein, and 17.33 per cent of crude fiber.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that cottonseed meal containing less than 36 per cent of protein, less than 7 
per cent of ammonia, and more than 14 per cent of crude fiber had been substi- 
tuted for good cottonseed meal containing a minimum protein content of 36 
per cent, a minimum ammonia content of 7 per cent, and a maximum crude 
fiber content of 14 per cent, which the said article purported to be.
On June 18. 1925, the defendant entered a submission to the information, and 
the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.