13099. Adulteratlon of Butter.    TJ. S. v. 3 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 18867.    I. S. No. 20395-v.    S. No. W-1527.)
On or about July 17, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of California, 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 3 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Merrill Creamery, Klamath Falls, Oreg., July 7, 1924, and 
transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in milk fat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, milk fat, 
had been wholly or in part abstracted therefrom.
On January 7, 1925, Wilsey Bennet Co., San Francisco, Calif., having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property and having 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 $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that it be brought into compliance with the law under the supervision of this 
department.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Aotmg Secretary of Agriculture.