10402. Adulteration of  ice   cream   cones,     tr.   S.     *     *     *     v.   704   Cases   of
Ice   Cream   Cones     *     *     * Decree   of   condemnation   and  for 
feiture.     Product  released  nnder  bond.     (F.  & D.  No.   12416.     I.   S. 
No. 228-r.    S. No. B-2122.)
On May 8, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
South Carolina, 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 704 cases of ice cream cones, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Columbia, S. C, consigned by the Roberts Cone Mfg. 
Co., St. Joseph, Mo., September 27, 1918, alleging' that the article had been 
shipped from St. Joseph, Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri 
into the State of South Carolina, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled, (on package) "Roberts Goodie 
Cones."
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated in 
that it consisted of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On August 20, 1920, Armour & Co., claimant, having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that the product be marked or stamped " Not for human food." The product 
was subsequently used as hog feed.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.