1559. Adulteration of   shell   eggs;   adulteration   and misbranding of   butter.
U. S. v. Roy Furr, Clem Boverie, Crone W. Furr, and Key Furr (Furr 
Food Stores). Pleas of guilty. Fine of $12.50 imposed against each 
defendant.    (F. D. C. No. 2914.    Sample Nos. 70510-D, 6585-E.)
These eggs were in part decomposed and the butter was deficient in milk 
fat and short of the declared weight.
On March 4, 1941, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Texas filed an information against Roy Furr, Clem Boverie, Crone W. Furr, 
and Key Furr, trading as Furr Food Stores at Lubbock, Tex., alleging that the 
defendants shipped on or about February 20, 1940, from the State of Texas 
into the State of New Mexico a quantity of butter that was adulterated and 
misbranded and also shipped on or about July 16, 1940, from the State of 
Texas into the State of New Mexico a quantity of shell eggs that were 
adulterated. The butter was labeled in part: (Wrapper) "l.Lb. Net Weight 
Country Roll Fresh Creamery Butter."
The shell eggs were alleged to be adulterated in that they consisted in whole 
or in part of a decomposed substance.
The butter was alleged to be adulterated in that a valuable constituent, milk 
fat, had been in part omitted therefrom; and in that a product which contained 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter. It 
was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement appearing on the wrappers, 
"1 Lb. Net Weight," was false and misleading since the rolls weighed less than 
1 pound net; and in that it was in package form and did not bear on its label 
an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight.
On March 7, 1941, pleas of guilty having been entered, the court imposed 
a fine of $12.50 against each defendant.