9214. Adulteration of   shell  eggs.     U.   S.     *      *     *     v.   Olof  Hildre   (Djililen
Mercantile Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. No. 12798. I. S. 
No. 187S6-r.)
On August 8, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of North Da- 
kota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Olof Hildre, 
trading as the Dahlen Mercantile Co., Dahlen, N. D., alleging shipment by said 
defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 31, 1919, 
from the State of North Dakota into the State of Minnesota, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of 540 eggs from the consignment by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this department showed 261 mixed or white rots, 114 moldy eggs, and 2 blood 
rings, or approximately 69 per cent inedible eggs.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid.animal 
substance.-
On March 12, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, A cling Secretary of Agriculture. •