80870. Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    U. S. v. Southland Cotton Oil Co.    Plea
of guilty. Fine, $100 and costs. (F. & D. No. 42750. Sample Nos. 5963-D, 
5964-D.)
This product contained a smaller proportion of protein than that declared on 
the tags.
On August 25, 1939, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Southland Cotton Oil Co., a corporation 
trading at Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act on or about January 18 and February 21, 
1939, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas of quantities of 
cottonseed meal which was alleged to be misbranded.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on the tags, 
"Crude Protein, not less than 43%," was false and misleading and was borne 
on the tags so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser since it contained less 
than 43 percent of crude protein, samples taken from the two shipments having 
been found to contain not more than 40.69"percent and 40.94 percent respectively, 
of crude protein.
On September 12, 1939, the defendant corporation entered a plea of guilty 
and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.