5561. Adulteration of milk,-   17. S.    ?     *     *    v. Union Dairy Co., JBL xsoi-p.oKa- 
tion.    Plea of not gnilty.    Finding: o* grnilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D.
No. 76.26.    I. S. No. 1171tW.)
On October 9, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, 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 
Union Dairy Co., a corporation, doing business at Troy, Ill., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on OF about Septem- 
ber 7, 1915, from the State of Illmois into the State of Missouri, of a quantity 
of milk -which was adulterated.
Examination of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the majority of the samples were either diseolened or 
dirty, or that they contained visible dirt, and that water had been added to 
most of the samples.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a certain substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith 
so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously aSect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted in part for mailk, v, hich the article purported to be; and for 
the further reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed 
animal substance.
On June 7, 1917, the case came on for trial before the court, ,a jury having 
been waived, and, after the submission of evidence and arguments by counsel, 
the court found the defendant company guilty and imposed a fine of $50 and 
costs. Thereupon the defendant company moved for a writ of error to the 
Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States for the seventh circuit, and the 
said writ was allowed.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,