12749. Adulteration of shell eggs.    TJ. S. v. H. H. Little Commission Co., a
Corporation.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No.  17939.    I. S. 
No. 6878-v.)
On March 11, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Mississippi, 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 
H. H. Little Commission Co., a corporation, Forest, Miss., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 19, 1923, 
from the State of Mississippi into the State of Louisiana, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From 
H. H. Little Commission Co.    *    *    *    Forest, Miss."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,440 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 251, or 17.43 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, 
spot rots, and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid 
animal substance.
On September 16, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.