9579. Misbranding of  dairy feed.     TI.  S.      *      *      *     v.  H.  Ii.   Halliday  Milling
Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Pine, $50 and costs.     (F.  & D.
No.  10047.    I.  S. No. 6110-r.)
On July 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
H. L. Halliday Milling Co., a corporation, Cairo, Ill., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 1 
or June 24, 1918, from the State of Illinois into the State of Mississippi, of 
a quantity of dairy feed which was misbranded. The article was labeled, in 
part: " * * * Halliday's Standard Dairy Feed * * * Guaranteed Aver- 
age Analysis Protein 16% Fat 2£% * * * by H. L. Halliday Milling Co., 
Cairo, Illinois."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 1.60 per cent of fat and 11.5 per cent of 
protein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, " Guaranteed Average Analysis Protein 16% Fat 
2£%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the article, regarding 
the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and 
misleading in that it represented that the said article contained not less than 16 
per cent of protein and not less than 2$ per cent of fat, and for the further 
reason that the article was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser 
into the belief that it contained not less than 16 per cent of protein and not 
less than 2\ per cent of fat, whereas, in truth and in fact, it did contain less 
than 16 per cent of protein and less than 2J per cent of fat, to wit, approxi- 
mately 11.5 per cent of protein and approximately 1.60 per cent of fat.
On October 20,1919, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.