14438. Adulteration and misbranding- of cottonseed  meal and  cottonseed 
feed.    U. S. v. Farmers Cotton Oil Co.    Plea of gnilty.     Fine, $100.
(F. & D. No. 19697.    I. S. Nos. 9020-v, 13495-v.)
On December 9, 1925, the United States attorney for the Eastern Distrlet ofr 
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 Farmers Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Wilson, N. C, alleging shipment by: 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about October 22," 
1924, from the State of North Carolina into the State of New York, of a quan- 
tity of cottonseed meal, and on or about October 25, 1924, from the State of 
North Carolina into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of cottonseed 
feed which articles were adulterated and misbranded. The said articles were 
labeled in part, respectively: " Paramount Brand * * * Good Cotton Seed 
Meal" and " Danish Brand Cotton Seed Feed."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry ?of this department of ?a ^sample of the 
cottonseed meal showed that it contained 33.44 per cent protein, 6.51 per cent 
ammonia, and 16.19 per cent crude fiber; analysis of a sample of the cotton- 
seed feed showed that it contained 34.25 per cent protein, 5.48 per cent nitrogen, 
and 15.89 per cent crude fiber.
Adulteration of the products was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance containing less than 36 per cent of protein, less than 7 per cent 
of ammonia, and more than 14 per cent of crude fiber, with respect to the 
so-called cottonseed meal, and containing less than 36 per cent of protein, the 
equivalent of 5.75 per cent of nitrogen, and more than 15 per cent of crude 
fiber, with respect to the cottonseed feed, had been mixed and packed with the 
articles, so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect their quality and 
strength and had been substituted for the said articles.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements borne on the 
respective labels, to wit, " Good Cotton Seed Meal * * * Guaranteed 
Analysis Protein (minimum) 36.00%, Ammonia (minimum) 7.00% * * * 
Crude Fibre (maximum) 14.00%," with respect to the so-called cottonseed 
meal, and " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 36.00%, Equivalent Nitrogen 5.75% 
* * * Crude Fibre (Max.) 15.00%," with respect to the cottonseed feed, 
were false and misleading, in that the said statements represented that the 
former was good cottonseed meal containing not less than 36 per cent of pro- 
tein, not less than 7 per cent of ammonia, and not more than 14 per cent of 
crude fiber, and that the latter contained 36 per cent of protein, the equiva- 
lent of 5.75 per cent of nitrogen, and contained not more than 15 per cent of 
crude fiber, and for the further reason that the articles were labeled as afore-
said so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that they were- 
as so represented, whereas the said cottonseed meal was not good cottonseed. 
meal but was cottonseed feed containing less than 36 per cent of pTotein, less- - 
than 7 per cent of ammonia, and more than 14 per cent of crude fiber, and was 
an imitation of and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another- 
article, cottonseed meal, which it purported to be but was not, a<nd the said 
cottonseed feed contained less than 36 per cent of protein, the equivalent or 
5.75 per cent of nitrogen, and contained more than 15 per cent of - crude fiber. 
On May 31, 1926, a plea of guilty to the information was entered' on behalf" 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.