9529. Adulteration of canned blackberries. U. S. * * * v. 1,183 Case* 
* * * of Blackberries. Default decree of condemnation, for- 
feiture, and destruction. (P. & D. No. 14830. I. S. No. 2075M:. S. No. 
C-2995.)
On April 23, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 1,183 cases, more or less, of blackberries, at Chicago, Ill., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Elmore Packing Co., Aber- 
deen, Wash., on February 26, 1921, and transported from the State of Wash- 
ington into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Elmore's Black- 
berries."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy vegetable substance, for the further 
reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, and for 
the further reason that it consisted in part of a putrid vegetable substance.
On July 22, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSU:Y, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.