10295.?Adultei-ation   of   shell   eggs.     XJ.    S.     *      *      *     v.    Joe    Lindsey   and
Robert B. Butler (Lindsey & Co.).     Pleas of gnilty.     Pines, S50 and
costs.     (F. & D. No. 14905.    I. S. No. 387-t.)
On August 3, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern 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 Joe Lindsey and Robert E. Butler, trading as Lindsey & Co.. Choteau,?
Okla., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, on or about August 2, 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 720 eggs?
from the consignment showed the presence of 72, or 10 per cent, inedible eggs,?
consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, blood rings, blood?
rots, 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, decomposed, and putrid animal?
substance.
On February 23, 1922, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed fines in the aggregate sum of $50 and costs.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.