13167. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. 16 Cubes of Butter. Product recon- 
ditioned and x-eleased to claimant. (F. & D. No. 19054. I. S. No. 
11697-v.     S. No. W-1576.)
On or about September 9, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern 
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 16 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., Payette, Idaho, on or 
about August 6, 1924, and transported from the State of Idaho into the State 
of California, 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 had been substituted wholly or in part for butter, 
and for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, milk fat, 
had been partially abstracted therefrom.
On December 10, 1924, the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., Payette, 
Idaho, having appeared as claimant for the property and the product having 
been reconditioned to conform with the law, an order of the court was entered, 
providing that the product be released to the claimant upon payment of the 
costs of the proceedings and that the bond theretofore filed be exonerated.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.