9476. Misbranding of   pears.     U.   S.     *      *      *     v.   Robert   L..   Rich.     Plea   of
guilty. Fine, $25 and costs. (F. & D. No. 13168. I. S. No. 7742-r.) 
On December 20, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Robert L. Rich, Cobden, Ill., alleging shipment by said defendant, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about September 19, 1919, 
from the State of Illinois into the State of Minnesota, of a quantity of pears 
which were misbranded.    The article was not labeled.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not 
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On April 11, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.