NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2570.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
D. S. v. Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Market.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF MAPLE SYRUP.
On December IT, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Vermont, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an 
information against the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Market, a 
corporation, Randolph, Vt., alleging shipment by said company, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of Vermont 
into the District of Columbia of a quantity of syrup which was adul- 
terated and misbranded. The product was labeled: "Colonial 
Maple Syrup, prepared expressly for Woodward and Lothrop, 
Washington, D. C."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Total solids by 
refruitometer, 64.01 per cent; sucrose, 49.26 per cent; invert sugar, 
10.88 per cent; total sugar, 60.14 per cent; total ash, 0.64 per cent; 
Winton lead number, 1.80. This does not appear to be a high-grade 
syrup. The sugars indicate it to be a syrup which has undergone 
fermentation and has been reboiled, during which process it was 
burned. It was alleged in the information that the product con- 
sisted of buddy, fermented syrup, which was labeled as set forth 
above, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not maple syrup but 
was in fact a by-product of the manufacture of maple syrup and was 
composed in part of filthy, putrid, and decomposed animal or vege- 
table substance and was a product known as " buddy " syrup.
On February 25, 1913, the defendant company entered a plea of 
guilty to the information and the court imposed a fine of $50.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 10, 1913.
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