3 2373. Adultex-ation of canned salmon. IT. S. v. 100 Cases and 175 Cases of Salmon. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- struction. (F. & D No. 17875. I. S. Nos. 4630-v, 4631-v. S. No. C-4233.) On October 26, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure and condemnation of 275 cases of salmon remaining unsold in the original packages in part at Humboldt, Tenn., and in part at Jackson, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Sanitary Fish Co. from Anacortes, Wash., on or about August 28, 1923, and transported from the State of Wash- ington into the State of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Double " Q." * * * Select Pink Salmon." Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance. On Ju?e 0) 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered* and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. HOWARD M. GOSE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.