5836.  Adulteration of oats.    U. S.    *     *     *     v. 2 Carloads of Oats.     Consent 
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product ordered released
on bond.    (F. & D. No. 7809.    I. S. Nos. 1414-m, 1415-m.    S. No. E-726.J
On October 28, 1916, 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 2 carloads of oats, remaining unsold and unloaded from the cars at Balti- 
more, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by Donahue, Stratton & 
Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the 
State of Maryland, the shipment having arrived on October 26, 1916, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
tained a large percentage of foreign matter, to wit, wild oats, other grains, 
weed seeds, dust, and chaff, which had been mixed with and substituted for 
oats, the approximate percentage of adulteration being from 15 to 16 per cent.
On November 1, 1916, John T. Fahey & Co., Baltimore, Md., claimants, hav- 
ing consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was en- 
tered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said 
claimant for cleaning of all foreign matter from said oats, under the super- 
vision of a representative of the Bureau of Chemistry, upon the payment of the 
costs of the proceedings and all expenses incident to said cleaning and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $10,000, in conformity with section 10 of 
the act.
R, A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.