17490. Adulteration of canned cherries.     U. S. v. Frederick B. Huxley and
Phillip  F.   Huxley   (F    B,   Huxley  &   Son).    Pleas   of   guilty.    Fines, 
$100.     (P. & D. No. 23737.    I.  S. Nos. 03141, 03143, 03144.)
Samples of the canned cherries from the herein-described interstate ship- 
ments having been found to contain worms and decayed cherries, the Secretary 
of Agriculture reported the facts to the United States attorney for the Western 
District of New York.
On June 24, 1929, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States aforesaid an information against Frederick B. Huxley 
and Phillip F. Huxley, copartners trading as F. B. Huxley & Son, Ontario, N. Y., 
alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
from the State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, on or about 
July 18, July 20, July 26, and July 31, 1928, respectively, of quantities of 
canned cherries which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
(Cans) "Huxson Brand Pitted Red Sour Cherries * * * Packed by F. B. 
Huxley & Son, Ontario, N. Y."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in part of filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal and vegetable 
substances.
On June 4, 1930, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed fines totaling $100.
AETHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.