10404. Adulteration of shell eggs.    TJ.  S.     *     *      *     v. Hillie J. Davis  and
William T. Davis (The City Grocery Co.).    Pleas of guilty.    Fine, 
$10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 14057.    I. S. No. 9558-r.)
On May 9, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Hillie J. Davis and William T. Davis, trading as The City Grocery Co., Mineral 
Springs, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about June 17, 1920, from the State of Arkansas into 
the State of Texas, of one case of shell eggs. The article was labeled in part: 
" From City Grocery, Mineral Springs, Ark.    *    *    *."
Examination of the 360 eggs involved in the consignment, by the Bureau 
of Chemistry of this department, showed the presence of 47, or 13 per cent, 
inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, and heavy blood 
rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On November 14, 1921, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PTTGSI^EY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.