14774. Misbranding of cottonseed  cake.    U.  S. v. 400  Sacks  of Cottonseed
Cake. Consent decree entered, adjudging product misbranded and 
ordering Its release under bond. (P. & D. No. 21438. I. S. No. 4175-x. 
S. No. C-5285.)
On December 6, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 400 sacks of cottonseed cake, at Rushville, Nebr., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Traders Oil Mill Co., from Fort Worth, 
Tex., on or about November 24, 1926, and transported from the State of Texas 
into the State of Nebraska, and charging misbranding in violation of the 
food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " 43% Protein Cottonseed 
Cake * * * Manufactured by Traders Mill Company Fort Worth, Texas 
Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded, in that the 
statement, " Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per 
Cent," borne on the label, was false and misleading and deceived and misled 
the purchaser.
On December 13, 1926, the Traders Oil Mill Co., Fort Worth, Tex., having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture of the property, a decree was 
entered, finding the product misbranded and ordering that it be released to the 
said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned in part that it not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of until relabeled by obliterating the statement "43% 
Protein " and substituting therefor the statement, " 41% Protein."
W„ M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.