5846. Adulteration and misbranding of oats. U. S. * * * v. 15 Carloads 
and Other railroads of Oats. Consent decree of condemnation. 
Product ordered released on bond. (F, & D. No. 8382. I. S. Nos. 
1823-p, 1S24-P, 1825-p, 1829-p, 1830-p, 1831-p, 1833-p, 1834-p, 1836-p, 
2817-p, 2818-p, 2819-p, 2820-p, 2822-p, 2834-p, 8206-p, 8207-p, S208-p, 
8209-p, 8210-p, 8211-p, 8212-p, 8213-p, 8214-p, 8215-p, 8216-p, 8217-p, 
8722-p, 8723-p, 8724-p.    S. No. E-871.)
During the month of August, 1917, 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 libels praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 15 carloads and other carloads of oats, remaining 
unloaded at Newport News, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Milwaukee Elevator Co., from Minneapolis, Minn., and from H. Y. Tower 
Station, Indiana, during the months of July and August, and transported from 
the States of Minnesota and Indiana into the State of Virginia, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in substance in the 
libels for the reason that it had been mixed and packed with certain foreign 
substances, to wit, wild oats, weed seeds, and screenings, so as to reduce and 
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted 
in part for oats.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was an imita 
tion of, and was offered for sale under the name of,-another article, to wit, oats.
On August 18, 1917, an order was entered consolidating the various libels 
filed into one cause, and the said Milwaukee Elevator Co., claimant, having 
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was or- 
dered by the court that the product should be delivered to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $15,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
CARL VKOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.