14238.  Adulteration of shell eggs.    U. S. v. Hugh I,. Hodges.    Plea of gruilty. 
Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 19742.    I. S. No. 3644-x.)
On January 29, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Hugh L. Hodges, trading as H. L. Hodges, Finger, Tenn., alleging shipment 
by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about July 27, 
1925, from the State of Tennessee into the State of Alabama, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From 
Finger, Tenn.   *   *   *   Shipper and Local Address H. L. Hodges."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 540 eggs, 
from 3 half cases from the shipment, showed that 131, or 24.3 per cent, were 
inedible eggs, consisting of mixed rots and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On April 26, 1926, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a penalty of $25, in lieu of fine and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.