3856.?Adulteration of hay.   U. S. v. One Hundred Bales of Hay.   Default decree of condem?
nation.   Product ordered sold.   (F. & D. No. 3967.   S. No. 1382.)
On or about May 14, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of?
Virginia, 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?
100 bales of hay remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Arringdale,?
Va., alleging that the product had been shipped during the spring of 1911 by the
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Escanaba Produce Co., Escanaba, Mich., to the Camp Manufacturing Co., at Arring-?
dale, Va., and transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Virginia, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product "was?
invoiced as "Light Alsyke Mixed Hay."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted?
in part of filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance; that it contained a?
considerable quantity of weeds and trash; that it was dusty, moldy, and rotten, and?
not fit for consumption by live stock for which it was purchased.
On May 20, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con??
demnation and forfeiture was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be sold by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 10, 1914.