5930.   Misbranding of   cottonseed   meal.    U.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Crescent   Cotton 
Oil   Co.,   a   corporation.      Plea   of   guilty.      Fine,   $50   and   costs.
(F. & D. No. 8088.     I.  S.  No. 19630-m.)
On March 20, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, 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 Crescent Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Memphis, Tenn., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 25, 
1916, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Indiana, of a quantity of an 
article labeled in part, " Kineda Prime Cottonseed Meal," which was mis- 
branded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the following results :
Ether extract (crude fat)  (percent) 
5.6
Crude fiber  (per cent) 
14.8
Crude protein (per cent) 
35.3
The product contained less crude fat, less crude protein, and 
more crude fiber than it was labeled to contain.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
the statement borne on the tags attached to the sacks, regarding the article 
and the ingredients and substances contained therein, to wit, " Guarantees this 
Kineda Prime Cottonseed Meal to contain not less than 6.0 per cent, of crude 
fat, 38.6 per cent, of crude protein, not more than 12.0 per cent, of crude fibre," 
was false and misleading in that it represented, that the article contained not 
less than 6 per cent of crude fat, not less than 38.6 per cent of crude protein, 
and not more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, 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 the amounts indicated of crude fat and 
crude protein and not more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, whereas, in truth 
and in fact, it contained less than the amounts indicated of crude fat and crude 
protein and more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, to wit, approximately 5.6 per 
cent of crude fat, approximately 35.3 per cent of crude protein, and 14.8 per 
cent of crude fiber.
On February 4, 1918, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.