17404. Misbranding of cottonseed cake screenings. IT. S. v. 380 Sacks of 
Cottonseed Cake Screenings. Consent decree of condemnation 
and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24568. 
I. S. No. 037802.    S. No. 2877.)
On February 22, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 380 sacks of cottonseed cake screenings, remaining in the orig- 
inal unbroken packages at Humphreys, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Graco Milling Co., from Cairo, Ill., on or about February 10, 
1930, and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, and 
charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Graco 43% Brand 43% Protein Prime Cottonseed Cake or 
Meal Guaranteed Analysis Protein Not Less Than 43%."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label, " Protein Not Less Than 43%," was false and misleading and 
deceived and misled the purchaser.
On March 1, 1930, the Graco Milling Co., Sherman, Tex., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of 
judgment for the condemnation and forfeiture of the property, a decree was 
entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in 
part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.