14872. Misbranding of  cottonseed  cake.     V. S. v. 400 Sacks  of Cottonseed
Cake.    Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product 
released nnder bond.     (F. & D. No. 21503.    I. S. No. 15221-x.    S. No.
C-5304.)
On December 27, 1926, 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 a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 400 sacks of cottonseed cake, at Morrill, Nebr., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Fuller Cotton Oil Co., from Snyder, Tex., 
on or about December 11, 1926, and transported from the State of Texas into 
the State of Nebraska, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "43% Protein Cottonseed Cake 
Prime Quality Manufactured by Fuller Cotton Oil Company Snyder, Texas."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded, in that the state- 
ment " 43% Protein,'' borne on the label, was false and misleading and deceived 
and misled the purchaser.
On February 9, 1927, the Fuller Cotton Oil Co., Fort Worth, Tex., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree condemning and forfeiting the product, judgment was entered, 
finding the said product misbranded and ordering that it be released to the 
claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a 
bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be relabeled by obliter- 
ating the statement " 43% Protein " from the label and substituting therefor 
the statement "40% Protein.*'
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.