19313. Misbranding of alfalfa leaf meal.    V. S. v. Pecos Valley Alfalfa Mill
Co.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.     (F. & D. No. 26538.    I. S. No. 10352.)
Samples of alfalfa meal from the shipment herein described having been 
found to contain less protein than labeled, the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the matter to the United States attorney for the District of New Mexico.
On October 17, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the Pecos
Valley Alfalfa Mill Co., a corporation, Hagerman, N. Mex., alleging' shipment 
by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about October 
2, 1930, from the State of New Mexico into the State of Illinois, of a quantity 
of alfalfa leaf meal that was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
(Tag) "Peevee Alfalfa Leaf Meal * * * Made By Pecos Valley Alfalfa 
Mill Co. Hagerman, New Mexico Guaranteed Analysis Protein 20%."
It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that the 
statement, to wit, " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 20%," borne on the tag at- 
tached to the sacks containing the article, was false and misleading in that the 
said statement represented that the article contained not less than 20 per cent 
of protein; and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to 
deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it contained not less than 
20 per cent of protein; whereas it contained less than 20 per cent of protein, 
to wit, approximately 18.38 per cent of protein.
On January 5, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
AKTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.