5618. Adulteration and misbranding o? " Baldwin's Cayug-a !Vatux-al Medi- 
cated Spring: Water." U. S. * * * v. Lucius Baldwin and Fred 
O. Baldwin  (Lucius Baldwin &  Son).     Pleas  of guilty.     Fine, $100.
(F. & D. No. 7025.    I. S. Nos. 871-k, 2161-k, 1917-1.)
On June 12, 1917, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Lucius Baldwin and Fred O. Baldwin, trading as Lucius Baldwin & Son, 
Cayuga, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about April 8, 1915, September 7, 1915 and 
June 3, 1915, from the State of New York into the State of New Jersey, of 
quantities of an article labeled in part, "Baldwin's Cayuga Natural Medicated 
Spring Water," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the following results:
Milligrams 
Ions: 
per liter.
Silica   (SiO?)    
4.0
Sulphuric acid (S04) 
1,680.0
Bicarbonate acid (HCOa) 
244. 0
Chlorin   (CI)    
6.0
Calcium (Ca)   
576.4
Magnesium  (Mg)   
114.8
Sodium (Na) by difference 
21.4
2, 646. 6 
Hypothetical combinations:
Sodium chlorid (NaCl) 
9.9
Sodium sulphate  (Na2SO.)   
54.2
Magnesium sulphate  (MgSO*)   
568.2
Calcium sulphate (CaSCh) 
1,686.2
Calcium bicarbonate (Ca(HC03)2)  
324.1
Silica <SiO0   
4.0
2, 646. 6
Bottle      Bottle 
No. 1.       No. 2.
Ammonia, free  (N) 
None.   Trace.
Ammonia, albuminoid   (N) 
0.050     0.050
Nitrogen as nitrites 
. 072       . 056
Nitrogen as nitrates 
None.     None.
Number of organisms per cc developing after 2 days on gelatin 
at 20? C ranged from 600 to 39,000 and on plain agar at 37? C 
from 190 to 4,600 in the 25 bottles examined. Lactose fermenta- 
tion tubes after 2 days at 37? C showed gas developing in 5 cc 
Quantities from 25 bottles, in 1 cc quantities from 23 bottles, 
in 0.1 cc quantities from 16 bottles, in 0.01 cc quantities from 5 
bottles, in 0.001 cc quantity from 1 bottle. B. coli were isolated 
from each bottle.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was mis- 
branded for the reason that certain statements appearing on its label falsely
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and fraudulently represented it as a cure for Bright's disease, diabetes, liver 
complaint, all kidney afflictions, dyspepsia and other disorders of the stomach, 
all affections of the bladder and urinary organs, rheumatism in all forms, 
jaundice, salt rheum, and all skin diseases, when, in truth and in fact, it \va^ 
not. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the article was in 
package form, and the quantity of the contents of the packages was not 
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside thereof in terms of weight, 
measure, or numerical count.
On June 20, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.