B279.   Misbranding of cottonseed meal or cake.    U.  S.     *     *     *     -v. Tecnm- 
seli  Oil  &  Cotton.  Co., a  corporation.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $50.
(F. & D. No. 7703.    I. S. No. 10888-1.)
On November 13, 1916, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Tecumseh Oil & Cotton Co., a corporation, doing business at Tecumseh, 
Okla., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Pood and Drugs 
Act, on or about December 15, 1915, from the State of Oklahoma into the State 
of Illinois, of a quantity of cottonseed meal or cake which was misbranded. 
The article was labeled in part: " * * * Silo Brand Cotton Seed Meal or 
Cake   *    *    *."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
Total ammonia (percent) 
6.64
Protein  (NX6.25)   (percent) 
34.1
The product contains less ammonia and protein than are de- 
clared on the label.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, " Guaranteed Analysis Ammonia 8 to 8J% Protein 
41 to 43%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks, regarding it and the in- 
gredients and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that 
it represented that said article contained not less than 8 per cent of ammonia 
and not less than 41 per cent of protein; and for the further reason that it was 
labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief 
that it contained not less than 8 per cent of ammonia and not less than 41 
per cent of protein, whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained less than 8 per 
cent of ammonia and less than 41 per cent of protein, to wit, approximately 
6.64 per cent of ammonia and approximately 34.1 per cent of protein.
On January 30, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the 
information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
B. A. PEAESON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.