NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2369.
(Given pursuant to section  4 of the Feed and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF BRIED APPLES AND DRIED CHERRIES.
On October 12, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a 
libel for the seizure and condemnation of 30 bags of dried apples and 
one bag of dried cherries remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages and in possession of the Northern Central Railway Co., 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the product had been shipped on or 
about October 8, 1912, from the State of Virginia into the State of 
Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " Fruit Shipped by H. P. 
Payne & Bro. P. O. Address Benvenue, Va. From Marshall, Va. 
R. S. Jackson & Co. Produce Commission Merchants Eggs, Poultry, 
Butter No. 113 S. Charles St. Baltimore, Md. Reference The Mary- 
land National Bank of Baltimore, Md."
Adulteration of the products was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that they consisted in part of filthy animal and vegetable substances, 
to wit, worms, worm excreta, and worm-eaten apples and cherries.
On November 21, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the prop- 
erty, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was further ordered that the product should be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3, 1913.
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