10474. Misbranding of bKans.    IT. S.     *      *      *     v. The Bay Frnit Co., a Cor 
poration.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine, $50  and  costs.     (F.   D. No.   13904. 
I. S. No. 14473-r.)
On October 8, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
South Carolina, 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 Bay Fruit Co., a corporation, Charleston, S. C, alleging ship- 
ment by said company, on or about May 23, 1919, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of South Carolina into the State 
of New York, of an article of food, to wit, beans, which was misbranded. 
The baskets containing the article bore no statements as to weight or con- 
tents.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not 
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On March 3, 1922, 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.