7080.  Adulteration   and   misbranding   of   Perfecto   Horse   and   Mule   Feed.
V. S. * * * v. 200 Sacks * * * of Perfecto Horse and Mule Feed. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered 
Teleased on bond.     (F. & D. No. 9684.    I.  S. No. 17635-r.     S. NQ. E-1234.)
On February 8, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 200 sacks, each containing 100 pounds of Perfecto Horse and 
Mule Feed, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Atlanta, Ga., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about December 28, 1918, by 
the Milam-Morgan Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La., and transported from the State 
of Louisiana into the State of Georgia, and charging adulteration and mis- 
branding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in 
part, "Perfecto Horse and Mule Feed * * * Guaranteed Analysis * * * 
Protein-9.00 per cent * * * made from Corn, Oats, Alfalfa, Rice Bran, 
Brewer's Grain, Cane Molasses, and Salt."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance and substances, to wit, cottonseed hulls, peanut hulls, rice hulls, and 
oat hulls had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for 
brewer's grain, which the article purported to contain.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance for the reason that the 
label bore the statement, " Protein 9.00 per cent * * * Brewer's Grain," 
which was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser and 
created in his mind the belief that the article contained 9 per cent of protein, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it did not, and that it contained brewer's grain, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it did not contain brewer's grain, but contained 
in lieu thereof, and as a substitute therefor, cottonseed hulls, peanut hulls, rice 
hulls, and oat-hulls, which were not declared on the label.
On March 7, 1919, the said Milam-MOrgan Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product should be delivered to said 
claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.