7314. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. * * * v. 54 Cases of 
Cloverbloom Creamery Butter. Consent decree of condemnation 
and  forfeiture.     Product   ordered   released   on  bond.      (F.   &  D.   No.
10324.    I. S. No. 15673-r.    S. No. E-1450.)
On May 19, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme Court 
of said District, holding a District Court, a libel for the seizure and condemna- 
tion of 54 cases, each containing 50 1-pound cartons of an article having the 
color and other appearance of butter, remaining unsold in the original nnbroken 
packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article had been shipped on 
or about May 4, 1919, by Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill., and transported from the 
State of Illinois into the District of Columbia, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled 
in part, " Highest Grade Cloverbloom Creamery Butter Armour and Company 
distributors."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that an 
excessive amount of water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower 
and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and for the further 
reason that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been 
substituted wholly or in part for the article, and for the further reason that a 
valuable constituent thereof, to wit, butter fat, had been in part abstracted 
therefrom.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement in 
the label, " Highest Grade Cloverbloom Creamery Butter," was .false and mis- 
leading and deceived and misled the purchaser into the belief that it was 
creamery butter, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not, but was a butter 
containing an excessive amount of water, and for the further reason that it was 
an imitation of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another 
article, to wit, creamery butter, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On June 10, 1919, the Hanford Produce Co., Sioux City, Iowa, claimant, 
having consented to a decree, j'udgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said 
claimant for rechurning upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, in conformity with section 10 of 
the act.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.