10530. Misbranding of cottonseed calce. U. S. * * * v. Planters Cotton 
Oil Co., Ltd., a Corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.     (F. & D.
No. 12476.    I. S. No. 11996-r.)
On December 3, 1920, 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 the 
Planters Cotton Oil Co., Ltd., a corporation, Natchitoches, La., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, on or about January 22, 1919, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Louisiana into the State of 
Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed cake which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 37.25 per cent of crude protein, 5.10 per cent 
of crude fat, and 16.21 per cent of crude fiber. Examination of the article 
showed that the average net weight of 63 sacks was 92.12 pounds.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
the statements, to wit, " 100 Pounds Gross 99 Lbs. Net Guaranteed Analysis 
Protein, not less than 41%, Oil or Fat, not less than 6%, Crude Fiber, not 
more than 12%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the 
article, regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained 
therein, were false and misleading in that they represented that each of the 
said sacks weighed 100 pounds gross and contained 99 pounds net of the article 
and that it contained not less than 41 per cent of protein, not less than 6 per 
cent of oil or fat, and not more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, and for the 
further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and 
mislead the purchaser into the belief that each of the said sacks weighed 
100 pounds gross and contained 99 pounds net of the said article and thai it 
contained not less than 41 per cent of protein, not less than 6 per cent of oil 
or fat, and not more than 12 per cent of crude fiber, whereas, in truth and in 
fact, each of the said sacks did not weigh 100 pounds gross but did- weigh a 
less amount, the said sacks did not contain 99 pounds net of the article but did 
contain a less amount, and the said article did contain less than 41 per cent 
of protein, less than 6 per cent of oil or fat, and more than 12 per cent of 
crude fiber, to wit, approximately 37.25 per cent of protein, 5.10 per cent of oil 
or fat, and 16.21 per cent of crude fiber. Misbranding was alleged for the 
further reason that the article was food in package form, and the quantity of 
the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the 
package.
On May 24, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
C. W. PIXGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.