NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2452.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drags Act.)
U.   S.   v.   3   Carloads   Feed   Barley.   Decree   of   condemnation   by   consent.
Goods released on bond.
ADULTEEATTON OF FEED BAELET.
On January 21, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district libels for the seizure and condemnation of 3 carloads of feed 
barley remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in 
possession of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., at the 
town of Hawthorne, Ill., alleging that the product had been shipped 
on January 17, 1913, by the Merchants Elevator Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn., and was being transported from the State of Minnesota into 
the State of Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that certain substances known as screenings and weed seed had been 
mixed and packed with the product so as to reduce, lower, and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the further reason 
that certain substances known as screenings and weed seed had been 
substituted in part for the product.
On February 3, 1913, the said Merchants Elevator Co., claimant, 
having admitted all the allegations in the libels and consented to a 
judgment of condemnation, and the court having heard arguments 
of counsel and being fully advised in the premises, a judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was further ordered 
that the product should be released and delivered to said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of 
bond in the sum of $3,000, in conformity with section 10 of the Act,
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 23,1913.
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