10422. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.    TI.   S.      *     *     *     v.   William   O.   Crove
(Custer City Produce Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50 and  costs.
(F. & D. No. 16019.    I. S. No. 18206-t.)
On April 10, 1922, 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 
William O. Crow, trading as the Custer City Produce Co., Custer City, Okla., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about August 23, 1921, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of 
Texas, of an article of food, to wit, shell eggs, which was adulterated.
Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of a sample 
of the article, consisting of 360 eggs from each of the 3 cases examined, showed 
the presence of 189, or 17.5 per cent, inedible eggs, consisting of 66 mixed or 
white rots, 92 blood rings, 29 blood rots, and 2 chick rots.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in pax't of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On April 13, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.