(N.  J.  125.)
ADULTERATION OF MILK.
(ADDED WATER.)
In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Food and?
Drugs Act of June 30,1906, and of regulation 6 of the rules and regu??
lations for the enforcement of the act, notice is given that on the 9th?
day of April, 1909, in the district court of the United States for the?
eastern district of Kentucky, Thomas Corbin, W. M. Ficke, W. F.?
Johnson, B. M. Mullins & Sons, Joseph Geiger, Theodore Groger,?
Henry Nostheide, Charles Peoples, jr., W. F. Hogan, J. C. Kirby,?
John Meiman, Owen Dunnaway, Stephen Schackle, W. H. Perry,?
Henry Ducker, B. Evers & Sons, and Willie Reeves, having been ar??
raigned upon informations theretofore filed by the United States?
attorney severally charging them with a violation of section 2 of the?
aforesaid act in shipping and delivering for shipment, from places in?
Kentucky, to Cincinnati, Ohio, milk adulterated in this, that water?
had been mixed therewith so as to reduce and lower its quality and?
strength, and that water had been substituted in part for the milk,?
and having severally entered their plea of guilty, the court sentenced?
each of them to pay a fine of $15.
The facts in the cases were as follows :
On September 1, 2, and 3, 1908, inspectors of the United States?
Department of Agriculture procured samples of milk from cans?
shipped to Cincinnati, Ohio, from outlying points in Kentucky.?
Fifteen of the consignments from which samples were taken were?
made to French Brothers Dairy Company by Thomas Corbin,?
Erlanger; W. M. Ficke, Buffington; W. F. Johnson, Demosville;?
B. M. Mullins & Sons, Catawba; Joseph Geiger, Erlanger; Theodore?
Groger, Devon; Henry Nostheide, Devon; Charles Peoples, jr.,?
Lynn; J. C. Kirby, Lynn; John Meiman, Devon; Owen Dunnaway,?
Butler; Stephen Schackle, Butler; W. H. Perry, Devon; B. Evers &?
Sons, Sanfordtown; and Willie Reeves, Butler; one of the consign??
ments was made to Liberty Ice Cream Company by W. F. Hogan,?
Devon, and one to Moreland Dairy and Creamery Company by?
Henry Ducker, Butler. The inspectors saw all the aforesaid con??
signments of milk, except that of B. Evers & Sons, which was trans-
ported by wagon across the bridge from Covington, delivered to and?
loaded by the respective railroads and accompanied them to Cincin??
nati, where the samples were procured. Analyses of the several?
samples were duly made in the Bureau of Chemistry of the United?
States Department of Agriculture, and it was found that in each?
case water had been added to and mixed with the milk. The milk?
was adulterated within the meaning of section 7 of the Food and?
Drugs Act in that a substance, water, had been mixed with it so as?
to reduce and lower its quality and strength and a substance, water,?
had been substituted in part for milk. The shippers were duly cited?
to hearings, and having failed to show any error in the results of the?
analyses, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the?
Attorney-General, who forthwith transmitted the evidence to the?
United States attorney for the eastern district of Kentucky, by?
whom informations were filed against the aforesaid shippers, with?
the results hereinbefore stated.
JAMES WILSON,?
/Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10,1910.