5959. Adulteration and misbranding of cottonseed meal. 17. S. * * * v. 
Phoenix Cotton Oil Co., a corpoi;ation, Plea of guilty. Fine, $100 
and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8288.    I. S.
' No. 3795-1.)
On January 12, 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 Phcenix Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Dyersburg, Tenn., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about February 
3, 1916, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Maine, of a quantity of 
an article labeled in part, " Dove Brand Prime Cotton Seed Meal," which was 
adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
Fat  (per cent) 
5.57
Fiber (percent) 
15.35
Protein (per cent) , 
32.81
Total nitrogen (percent) 
5.25
Ammonia  (percent) 
6.38
The above analysis shows the product to be of lower grade than 
prime cottonseed meal, that it contained an excess of fiber indicat- 
ing added' hulls, and contained less than 3S.63 per cent protein, 6 
per cent fat, 6.18 per cent nitrogen, 7.50 per cent ammonia, and 
more than 10 per cent fiber.
? Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, added hulls, had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for prime cottonseed meal, which the article purported 
to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements regarding the 
article and ingredients and substances contained therein, to wit, " Guaranteed 
Analysis *• * * Prime Cotton Seed Meal * * * Ammonia 7.50%, Pro- 
tein 38.63%, Fat 6.00%, Nitrogen 6.18%. These are minimum guarantees fre- 
quently runs higher Fibre. Maximum 10.00%," were false and misleading in 
that they represented that the article was prime cottonseed meal which con- 
tained not less than 7.50 per cent of ammonia, 38.63 per cent of protein, 6.00 
per cent of fat, 6.18 per cent of nitrogen, and not more than 10.00 per cent 
of 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 was prime cottonseed 
meal which contained not less than 7.50 per cent of ammonia, 38.63 per cent 
of protein, 6.00 per cent of fat, 6.18 per cent of nitrogen, and not more than 
10.00 per cent of fiber, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not prime cottonseed 
meal which contained not less than the amounts indicated of ammonia, protein, 
fat, and nitrogen, and not more than 10 per cent of fiber, but was a product 
inferior to prime cottonseed meal, to wit, a mixture of cottonseed meal and 
added hulls, which contained approximately 6.38 per cent of ammonia, approxi- 
mately 32.81 per cent of protein, approximately 5.57 per cent of fat, approxi- 
mately 5.25 per cent of nitrogen, and 15.35 per cent of fiber.
On January 19,1918, the defendant* company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
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