12718. Adulteration of butter. TT. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to be reworked. (F. & D. No. 18866. I. S. No. 18799-v. S. No. C-4444.) On July 19, 1924, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 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 packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Anna Produce Co., Anna, Ill., on or about July 16, 1924, and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, 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 product deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been mixed and packed with and substituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, namely, butterfat, had been abstracted therefrom. On September 15, 1924, the W. A. Deemsf Commission Co., St. Louis, Mo., having appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon the execu- tion of a good and sufficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product be reworked so that it should have a butterfat content of not less than 80 per cent and a moisture content of not to exceed 15.9 per cent. HOWAED M. GOBE, Secretary of Agriculture.