14878. Misbranding of  cottonseed  meal   and   cake.     IX.   S.  v.   150  Sacks   of
Cottonseed Meal and 450 Sacks of Cottonseed Cake. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 21462.    I. S. Nos. 15138-x, 15139-x.    S. No. W-1893.)
On December 14, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Colo- 
rado, 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 150 sacks of cottonseed meal and 450 sacks of cottonseed cake, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at Las Animas, Colo., consigned 
by the Coleman Cotton Oil Mill, Coleman, Tex., alleging that the article had 
been shipped from Coleman, Tex., or on about November 30, 1926, and trans- 
ported from the State of Texas into the State of Colorado, and charging mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part: "Cottonseed Meal" (or "Cake") "Prime Quality Manufactured by 
Coleman Cotton Oil Mill Coleman, 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 state- 
ment " Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent," borne on the label, was 
false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, since it did not 
contain 43 per cent of protein.
On December 30, 1926, C. N. Troup, Las Animas, Colo., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $500, conditioned in part that it not be sold or otherwise disposed of 
contrary to law.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.