Brownsville Cotton Oil suul Jce Co.     Plea of gnilty.     Fine, $50 and
costs.     (P. & D.No.  11810.   
1.  S. No. 70Sl-r.)
On April 19, 1920,' the .United States attorney for the Western. District of?
TVnne.ssec, 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 Brownsville Cottoia Oil and Ice Co., Brownsville, Term., alleging shipment?
by the said company, on or about January 25, 1919, from the State of Tennessee?
into the State of Iowa, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part. ".41??
Cottonseed Meal," which was adulterated and inisbranded in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it contained 3S.8 per cent of protein.
Adulteration of-the article was alleged in the information in that a sub??
stance, to wit, cottonseed meal containing less than 41 per cent of protein, had?
been substituted in whole or in part for " 41 per cent cottonseed meal," which?
1he article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in that the article was food in package?
form, and the quantity of the contents thereof was not plainly and conspicuously?
marked on the outside of the package.
On May 28, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.