12180. Adulteration of butter.     V. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter.     Decree of con 
demnation and forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.     (F.   &
D. No. 18488.    I. S. No. 15445-v.    S. No. E-4778.)
On March 14, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and 
condemnation of 14 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Stras- 
burg Creamery, from Strasburg, Ill., on or about March 1, 1924, and trans- 
ported from the State of Illinois into the State of Massachusetts, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance, to wit, a product deficient in butterfat, had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength and had been substituted wholly and in part for the said article. 
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent 
of the article to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted.
On March 17, 1924, Bartlett, Varney & Co., Boston, Mass., having entered 
an appearance as claimant for the property and having filed a satisfactory 
bond in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment of condemnation was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product might be released to 
said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings.
HOWARD M. GOBE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.