12523. Adulteration and misbranding' of butter.     V. S. v. 36 Tubs of But 
ter.    Decree  of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 18842.    I. S. No. 16844-v.    S. No. E-4913.)
On July 8, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
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 condemna- 
tion of 36 tubs of butter remaining in the original unbroken packages at Boston, 
Mass., consigned June 23, 3924, alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the South Hero Creamery Assoc, South Hero, Vt, and transported from the 
State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration 
and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with and sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that 
<i valuable constituent of the said article, to wit, butterfat, had been wholly or 
in part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation of 
and offered for sale under the name of another article, to wit, butter, and for 
the further reason that it was food in package form and the quantity of the 
contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the 
package.
On July 11, 1924, the Goldsmith-Stockwell 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 
rhe said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.