5444.  Adulteration and misbranding of  cottonseed meal.     TJ.  S. *     *     *     V.
Cottonseed   Products   Co.,   a   corporation.   (Roff   Oil   & Cotloa   Co.).
Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $55.      (F.   &  D.   No.   8062.     I.   S. Nos.   19957-1, 
16065-1.)
On April 5, 1917, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Cottonseed Products Co., a corporation, Roff, Okla., alleging shipment by 
said company in the name and style of the Roff Oil & Cotton Co., on or about 
March 15, 1916, and March 9, 1916, from the State of Oklahoma into the State 
of Iowa, of quantities of an article labeled in part: " Dixie Brand Cotton Seed 
Meal," which was adulterated and misbranded in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed, respectively, the following results:
No. 1. No. 2.
Crude fiber (per cent) 
14.59 14.60
Protein (percent) 
35.63 33.44
The above analysis shows the product to be low in protein and 
high   in  fiber.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information 
for the reason that a product, to wit, cottonseed meal containing less than 
88.62 to 43 per cent of protein and more than 8 to 12 per cent of fiber, had been 
substituted in whole or in part for cottonseed meal containing 38.62 to 43 per 
cent of protein and 8 to 12 per cent of fiber, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the following statements regard- 
ing the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein appearing 
on the labels, to wit, " Guaranteed Analyses * * * Protein 38.62 to 43%, 
crude fibre 8 to 12%," were false and misleading in that they represented to 
purchasers that it contained not less than 38.62 per cent of protein and not 
more than 12 per cent of fiber; and for the further reason that it was labeled 
as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead purchasers into the belief that it 
contained not less than 38.62 per cent of protein and not more than 12 per cent 
of fiber, whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained less than 38.62 per cent of 
protein and more than 12 per cent of fiber.
On May 14, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $55.
OAKL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.