7712. Rlisbrandimg  of  dairy feed.     U.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Oinalia  Alfalfa  Milling
Co., a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $10. (F. & D. No. 11121. 
I. S. Nos. 11055-r, 11056-r.)
On March 5, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 Omaha Alfalfa 
Milling Co., a corporation, alleging shipment by the said defendant company, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 19, 1918, and February 6, 
1918, from the State of Nebraska into the State of Michigan, of quantities of 
dairy feed which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part, " Beauty 
Dairy Feed   *    *    *    Guaranteed Analysis   Protein 24 per cent."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that the shipment of July 19 contained 21.6 per cent of protein, 
and that the shipment of February 6 contained 20.7 per cent of protein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
the statement " Protein 24 per cent" was false and misleading and deceived and 
misled the purchaser, in that it represented to the purchaser of said article that 
the same contained not less than 24 per cent of protein, whereas, in fact and 
in truth, the said article did contain less than 24 per c^nt of protein.
On April 5, 1920, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.