13272. Adulteration and misbranding- of cottonseed meal.    TJ. S. v. Coving-
tou Cotton Oil Co.     Plea, of g-uilty.     Fine, S25 and costs.     (F. & D.
No. 19579.     I.  S. No. 21852-v.)
On March 17, 1925, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Com-t of the United States for said district an information against the 
Covington Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Covington, Tenn., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about March 12, 
1924, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of cot- 
tonseed meal which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled 
in part: "Guaranteed Analysis Not Less Than Protein fEquivalent to 8% 
ammonia) 41.00%."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained approximately 39.3 per cent of protein, 
equivalent to 7.64 per cent of ammonia.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance deficient in protein, in that it contained less 'than 41 per cent of 
protein, equivalent to 8 per cent of ammonia, had been substituted for prime 
cottonseed meal guaranteed to contain not less than 41 per cent of protein 
equivalent to 8 per cent of ammonia, which the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " Guar- 
anteed Analysis Not Less than Protein (Equivalent to 8% ammonia) 41.00%," 
borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the article, was false and 
misleading, in that the said statement represented that the article contained 41 
per cent of protein, equivelent to 8 per cent of ammonia, and for the further 
reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the pur- 
chaser into the belief that it contained 41 per cent of protein, equivalent to 8 
per cent of ammonia, whereas the said article contained less than 41 per cent of 
protein.
On March 30, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of S25 and costs.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.