Farrell v. United States

The appellant imported from Canada two lots of a substance known as “fish meal,” which is produced from the refuse parts of fish from fish canneries. The evidence shows that ■ the refuse is tanked and cooked, and then the oil is extracted and the residue is thoroughly dried and ground into a fine meal. In the busy canning season ofttimes the refuse is permitted to accumulate until it decomposes. The meal made from the decomposed material is suitable only for manure, if the decomposition is sufficient to make it unfit for animal food. If there has not been too much decomposition, the meal may…