0465.  Adulteration of shell eggs.     U. S.     *     *      *     v. Joseph W. Scott (Scott 
Produce   Co.).     Plea   of  guilty.     Fine, $25   and  costs.     (F.   &  D.   No.
14512.    I.  S. No. 340-t.)
On May 11, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Joseph W. Scott, trading as the Scott Produce Co., Waynoka, Okla., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about July 12, 1920, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas, of a 
quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of the three 
cases involved in the shipment showed 224, or 20.7 per cent, inedible eggs, con- 
sisting of mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, spot rots, heavy blood rings, blood 
rots, chick rots, and one red rot.
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 June 13, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,
and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs. 
„  ETC. W. PUGSLEY,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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