12611. Adulteration   of  butter.     TJ.   S.  v.   39  Tubs   of  Butter.     Consent   de 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond to be reworked. (F. & D. No. 18435. I. S. No. 12805-v. S. No. 
E-4759.)
On March 4, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 39 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Glen Ullin Creamery Co. from Glen Ullin, N, D., July 2, 1923, and 
transported from the State of North Dakota into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sub- 
stances deficient in butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been 
mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its 
quality and strength and were substituted in part for the said article. Adul- 
teration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent, to wit, 
butterfat, had been in part abstracted.
On July 24, 1924, the Miles Friedman Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, 
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 $900, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reworked 
under the supervision of this department.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.