9618. Adulteration of shell eggs.    U. S.     *     *     *    v. George W. Reaves and
Henry W. Reaves   (Sentinel Poultry etc  Egg  Co.).     Pleas  of guilty. 
Fine, $50 and costs.     (P. & D. No. 14511.    I. S. Nos. 346-t, 352-t.)
On May 23, 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 
George W. Reaves and Henry W. Reaves, trading as the Sentinel Poultry & Egg 
Co., Sentinel, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 14 and 16, 1920, respectively, from the 
State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas, of quantities of shell eggs which 
were adulterated.
Examination of 2 of the 4 cases involved in the former shipment and one-half 
case each of the 3 cases involved in the latter shipment by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry of this department showed the presence of 99, or 13.75 per cent, and 119, or 
22.03 per cent, respectively, inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white 
rots, spot rots, blood rings, and chick rots.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On June 14, 1921, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed fines in the aggregate of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.