24359. Misbranding of cottonseed screenings.    V. S. v.  Guthrie Cotton Oil
Co.   Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 33781.    Sam- 
ple no. 57540-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of cottonseed screenings that 
contained less than 43 percent of protein, the amount declared on the label.
On October 31, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against the Guthrie Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, 
Guthrie, Okla., alleging shipment by said company on or about October 28, 
1933, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas of a quantity of 
cottonseed screenings which were misbranded.   The article was labeled in part:
" Guaranteed Analysis Protein, not less than 43%    *    *    *    Manufactured for 
Kansas City Cake & Meal Co."
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement on the label, 
" Guaranteed Analysis Protein, not less than 43% ", was false and misleading, 
and for the further reason that it was labeled so as to deceive and mislead 
the purchaser, since it contained less than 43 percent of protein.
On December 6, 1934, a "plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.