15418. Misbranding of  feed.     TJ.  S.  -v.  300  Sacks   of  Feed.     Decree   of   con 
demnation  and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under   bond.     (F.   &
D. No. 22333.    I. S. No. 8544-x.     S. No. 387.)
On December 28, 1927. the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Kentucky, 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 300 sacks of feed, remaining unsold at Middlesboro, Ky., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from the Hood Feed Co., Chattanooga, 
Tenn,, on or about. November 23, 1927, and transported from the State of 
Tennessee intb the State of Kentucky, and charging misbranding in violation, 
of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: ,fHood Special 
Fine Feed, Made by Hood Feed Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., Guaranteed Analysis 
Protein 15 per cent."
. It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded, in that the state- 
ment "Protein 15 Per cent" was false and misleading and deceived and misled 
the purchaser.
On January 9, 1928, Charles F. Hood, Chattanooga, Tenn., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the 
said claimant upon payment of the costs of tlie proceedings and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it not be sold or other- 
wise disposed of until relabeled in compliance with tlie law.
W. M. JARDINB, Secretary of Agriculture.