13861. Adulteration and misbranding of gray shorts.    IT. S. v. 40 Sacks ot
Gray   Shorts.    Default   order   of   forfeiture   and   destruction   en- 
tered.     (F. & D. No. 19946.    I. S. No. 21448-v.     S^No. C-4691.)
On March 31, 1925, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 40 sacks of gray shorts, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Laurel, Miss., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by Hogan Bros., from Kansas City, Mo., on or about January 28, 1925, and 
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Mississippi, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Tag) "Strength Feed Wheat Gray Shorts 
with Ground Wheat Screenings Not to Exceed Mill Run Hogan Brothers, 
Kansas City, Mo.," and was invoiced as " Gray Shorts."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
brown shorts had been mixedand packed with and substituted wholly or in 
part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the designation " Gray Shorts " 
was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, and for the 
further reason that the article was offered for sale under the distinctive 
name of another article.
On September 22, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MAEVIET, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.