7976. Adulteration of processed InUter. I'. S. "- * * v. TO Tubs of Al- 
leged Pi'ocessed Butter. Consent decree o? cc-itfEc'iun.ntion. and for- 
feiture. Goods released on bond. (1>\ & I>. No 10910. I. S. No. 
1554G-r.     S.  No. E-1645.)
On August 5, 1919, 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 
70 tubs of alleged processed butter, remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at Baltimore, Md., consigned July 28, 1919, alleging shipment by R. E, 
Cobb Co., St. Paul, Minn., and tran.sported from the State of Minnesota into 
the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel in that water had been 
mixed and packed Avith the article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously 
affect its quality and strength, and a substance IOAV in butter fat and high in 
moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the article, and further in 
that a valuable constituent thereof, to wit, butter fat, had been in part abstracted.
On September 26, 1919, John N. Poehlman and George W. T. Poehlman, co- 
partners, trading as John N. Poehlman & Sons, claimants, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it Avas 
ordered by the court that the product be released to said claimants upon the 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the filing of a bond, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.