17016. Misbranding of cottonseed meal. 17. S. v. Rlcbard E. Lillard, 
Andrew C. Dunklin, Irby W. Dunklin, and W. Bryan Dunklin 
(Fort Smitb Cotton Oil Co.).     Pleas of guilty.     Fines, S96.     (F. & D.
No.   23756.    I.   S.   Nos.   01412,   01413,   01414,   01415,   01416,   01417,   01420, 
01556.)
On September 30, 1929, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Kichard E. Lillard, Andrew C. Dunklin, Irby W. Dunklin, and W. Bryan Dunk- 
lin, copartners, trading as Fort Smith Cotton Oil Co., Fort Smith, Ark., alleging 
shipment by said defendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, in various 
consignments, on or about January 29. January 30, January 31, and February 1, 
1929, respectively, from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, of 
quantities of cottonseed meal which was misbranded. The article was labeled 
in part: " ' Old Fort' Brand Choice 43% Grade Cotton Seed Meal (Guaranteed 
Analysis) Ammonia 8.36% Nitrogen 6.88%, Crude Protein 43.00% * * * 
Manufactured By Fort Smith Cotton Oil Co. Fort Smith, Arkansas." 
1 It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that 
the statements, to wit, "Choice 43% Grade Cotton Seed Meal. (Guaranteed 
Analysis) Ammonia 8.36%, Nitrogen 6.88%, Crude Protein 43.00%," borne on 
the tags attached to the sacks containing the said article, were false and mis- 
leading in that the sa-d statements represented that the article was choice 
43 per cent grade cottonseed meal containing 8.36 per cent of ammonia, 6.88 per 
cent of nitrogen, and 43 per cent of crude protein, and for the further reason 
that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the 
purchaser into the belief that it was choice 43 per cent grade cottonseed meal, 
containing 8.36 per cent of ammonia, 6.88 per cent of nitrogen, and 43 per cent 
of crude protein, whereas the article was not choice 43 per cent grade cotton- 
seed meal containing the declared amounts of ammonia, nitrogen, and crude 
protein, but did contain less than 8.36 per cent of ammonia, less than 6.88 
per cent of nitrogen, and less than 43 per cent of crude protein.
On November 7, 1929, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed fines aggregating $96.
AETHTP M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture