12807. Adulteration and misbranding1 of butter. U. S. v. 9 Tubs and 9 
Tubs of Butter. Consent deerees of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond to be reconditioned. (F. & D. Nos. 
18877, 18895.    I. S. Nos. 19007-v, 19011-v.    S. Nos. C-4443, C-4446.)
On July 22 and 25, 1924, respectively, the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district libels 
praying the seizure and condemnation of 18 tubs of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Nelson Creamery, from Nelson, Wis., in part July 15, and in 
part July 19, 1924, and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State 
of Illinois, and charging adulteration and misbranding with respect to a 
portion of the article and adulteration with respect to the remainder thereof, 
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, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed with the said 
article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, 
for the further reason that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in mois- 
ture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the 
further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had 
been in part abstracted therefrom.
Misbranding was alleged with respect to a portion of the article for the 
reason that it was food in package form and each of the packages did not have 
the quantity of the contents marked on the outside thereof.
On October 14, 1924, the Nelson Creamery Co., Nelson, Wis., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels 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 $1,000, 
in conformity with section 10 Of the act, conditioned in part that it be reproc- 
essed under the supervision of this department so as to raise the butterfat to 
not less than 80 per cent, and the tubs marked with the quantity of the contents.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.