14503. Misbranding? of cottonseed meal. IT. S. v. 390 Sacks of Cottonseed" 
Meal. Decree finding product misbranded and ordering1 its re- 
lease under bond.    (F. & D. No. 20854.    I. S. No. 371-x.    S. No..W-1883.)
On or about February 24, 1926, the United States attorney for5 the District of 
Colorado, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Cqurtrof the. United ,StatesL.for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation  of 390  sacks  of cottonseed  meal,   remaining in * the  original" 
unbroken packages at Denver, Colo., consigned by Spears & Co., El Paso", Tex.,; 
alleging that the article had been shipped from. El Paso, Tex., on or about - 
January 28, 1926, and transported from the State of Texas into; the State of 
Colorado, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled;in part: "43% Protein Cotton,-.> SeedJtl^l^,,.*,*;;, 
Manufactured By Spears' &" Company' El"Paso,"Texas ^Guarante^pAnalysisT " 
Crude Protein Not,Less Than 43.00 per cent." 
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Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statements, " 43% Protein " and " Qrude Protein Not Less Than 43.00'rier cent,"" 
borne on the label, were false and misleading and deceived and misled the pur-;'t 
chaser, since the said article did not contain 43 per cent of protein.7 -[ ?     -
On March 23, 1926, Spears & Co., El Paso, Tex., having appeared" ''a:S claimant;'- 
for the property, a decree was entered, adjudging the product mislabeled in vio-- 
lation of the law, and it was ordered by the court that the said product be- 
released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it be-relabeled": 
according to its true and correct contents.       "'"" 
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.