15427.   Adulteration of   shell   egfas.     TJ.   S.   -v.   Ed   Morris.     Plea   of   guilty.
Fine, $25 and costs.     (P. & D. No. 19730.    I. S. No. 23898-v.)
On July 24, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a i'eport by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against Ed 
Morris, Kay County, near Marlafid, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant, 
in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 25, 1925, from the State 
Oklahoma into the State of Kansas, of a quantity of shell eggs, which were 
adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From Ed Morris, * * * 
Marland, Okla."
Examination by this department of 1 case of 300 eggs from the shipment 
showed 291, or 80.8 per cent, inedible eggs.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that it 
consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On October 6, 1927, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
W; M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.