18776. Misbranding of  cottonseed meal.    U.  S.  v.  600 Bags   of Cottonseed
Meal.     Consent decree of condemnation.    Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 27119.    I. S. No. 23812.    S. No. 5180.)
Examination of the shipment of cottonseed meal herein described having 
shown that the sacks containing the article were not marked with a plain and 
conspicuous statement of the quantity of the contents, the matter was reported 
to the United States attorney for the District of Kansas by an official of the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
On or about August 26, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 600 bags of cottonseed meal, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Manhattan, Kans., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Honey Grove Cotton Oil Co., from Honey Grove, Tex., on or 
about July 31, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Texas into 
the State of Kansas, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act as amended.
''iVwas" alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the bags 
contained no mark, brand, or label showing the net weight of the article 
contained therein.
" On September 4,1931, the D. O. Coe Seed & Grain Co., Topeka, Kans., having 
appeared" as- claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be 
labeled to show the correct weight, and should not be sold or offered for sale in 
violation of law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.