18904. Misbranding of corn meal. V. S. v. 528 Sacks of Meal, et al. De- 
fault decrees of destruction entered. (F. & D. Nos. 26446, 26447. 
I. S. Nos. 24318, 24320, 24321, 24322.    S. Nos. 4730, 4732.)
Samples of corn meal from the shipments herein described having been found 
short of the declared weight, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi.
On May 29, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 1,728 sacks 24 pounds each, 40 sacks 98 pounds each, and 100 sacks 10 
pounds each of meal, remaining in the original unbroken packages in part at 
Vicksburg, Miss., and in part at Natchez, Miss., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co., Shreveport, La., in part 
on or about May 5, 1931, and in part on or about May 9, 1931, and had been 
transported from the State of Louisiana into the State of Mississippi, and charg- 
ing misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The article 
was labeled in part, variously: (Sacks) "Marshall Mill & Elevator Co. Acorn 
Meal Marshall Texas Manufactured by Shreveport Grain and Elev. Co. 24 
Lbs. Net When Packed; " " Manufactured for Marshall Mill & Elevator Co. 
Acorn Meal Marshall Texas 98 Lbs. Net When Packed; " "Red Head Meal 
24 lbs. Net When Packed; " " Red Head Meal 10 lbs. Net."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ments of net weight appearing on the sacks were false and misleading and 
deceived and misled the purchaser. Misbranding was alleged for the further 
reason that the article was in package form and failed to bear a plain and
conspicuous statement of the quantity of the contents, since the statements 
made were incorrect.
On November 19, 1931, decrees were entered finding the allegations of the 
libels to be true, and ordering that the United States marshal destroy the three 
24-pound sacks and one 98-pound sack of Acorn meal, and the forty-nine 
24-pound sacks and fifty-four 10-pound sacks of Red Head meal which had been 
seized.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.