15480. Misbranding of cottonseed cake and cottonseed meal. U. S- v, 
Planters    Cottonseed    Products    Co.     Plea    of    guilty.     Fine,   $320.
(F.   &  D.   No.   22527.    I.   S.   Nos.   4135-x,   4144-x,   4145-x,   4147-x,   4163-x, 
15035-x, 15428-x, 15430-x.)
On November 10, 1927, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Planters Cottonseed Products Co., a corporation, Dallas, Tex., alleging shipment 
by said company, in various consignments between the dates of November 15, 
1926, and January 14, 1927, from the State of Texas into the States of Kansas, 
Nebraska, and Montana, respectively, of quantities of cottonseed cake and meal, 
which were misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " Guaranteed Analy- 
sis Protein Not less than 43 per cent," or "Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein 
not less than 48.00 Per Cent."
Examination by this department of samples of the products from the various 
shipments showed that they contained from 39.44 to 41.43 per cent protein.
It was alleged in the information that the articles were misbranded, in that 
the statements, to wit, " Guaranteed Analysis Protein Not less than 43 per 
cent," or "Guaranteed Analysis Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent," 
borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the said articles, were false 
and misleading in that the said statements represented that the articles con- 
tained not less than 43 per cent of protein, or 43 per cent Of crude protein, as the 
case might be, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so 
as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that they contained 43 
per cent of protein, or 43 per cent of crude protein, whereas they did not, but 
did contain a less amount.
On February 6, 192S, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, arid the court imposed a fine of $320.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.