8845.  Adulteration of   shell   eggs.     U.   S.     *      *      *     v.   Myrtle   May   Smith 
(Farmers   Produce   Co.).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $50.     (F.   &   D.   No.
14341.     I.  S. Nos. 343-t, 345--t.)
On April 19, 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 
Myrtle May Smith, trading as the Farmers Produce Co., Anadarko, Okla., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and.Drugs Act, 
on or about July 14, 1920, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kan- 
sas, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 276 and 180 
eggs, respectively, from two cases of the consignment showed that 158, or 57.2 
per cent, and 109, or 60 per cent, respectively, were inedible eggs, consisting 
of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, blood rings, and blood rots.
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 May 9, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and.the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.