15355. Adulteration of sliell ess*.    U. S. v. Samuel Fletcher Barnes  (S. ;
Barnes).     Plea  of  Kuilty.     Fine,  $10.     (F.  & D.   No.  21557.     I.   S.  ]S 
7891-X.)
On March 18, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in tl 
District Court of the United States for said district an information again 
Samuel Fletcher Barnes, trading as S. F. Barnes, Nokomis, Va., alleging shi 
ment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or abo 
August 14, 1926, from the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of 
quantity of eggs, which were adulterated. The aiticle was labeled in pai 
(Case) "From S. F. Barnes, Nokomis, Va."
Examination by this department of one case containing 360 eggs from t 
shipment showed 57, or 14.1 per cent, inedible eggs.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 4, 1927, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informatii 
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture