5518. Admteratioaa a-nd jtadtolwatiAiftsr of n?alt s^vmutSi. ?. S. * * * v? 483 
Basrs e? Malt" Spfoatet Consent decr?e o* candestraatloai audi for- 
feiture. Product ordeiredt reJ?s?s*d os frond, CBV& D. No, S37-C. I. S. 
No. 11984-m.)
On February 28, 1917, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Commissioner of Agriculture of the 
State of Tennessee, authorized 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 483 bags of malt sprouts, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Nashville, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about February 16, 1917, by C. U. Snyder & Co.,. Chicago, IH^ and trans- 
ported from the State of Illinois into the State of Tennessee1, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was invoiced as " Malt Sprouts."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that barley chaff (or hulls), screenings, and dust had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to reduce or lower its quality and strength, and had been sub- 
stituted in part for the article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason th-at the article was an imitation of 
and offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, malt 
sprouts, whereas, In truth and in fact, it was a mixture of barley, chaff (or 
hulls), screenings, dsist, and a small amount of malt sprouts.
On May S3, 1917, the said C. V. Snyder & Co., claimant, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be released to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $509, in c?ttf0^rmity With sectioa 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
the article should be properly labeled under the supervision of this department.
CAEL VBOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.