On or about December 10, 1924, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Tennessee, 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 125 boxes of evaporated apples, at Memphis, 
Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Lincoln Fruit Co., 
from Lincoln, Ark., on or about September 30, 1924, and transported from the 
State of Arkansas into the State of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Evapo- 
rated Apples Packed by Lincoln Fruit Company, Lincoln, Arkansas."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that an 
excessive amount of water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been 
substituted wholly or in-part-for the said article.
On March 3, 1925, the Lincoln Fruit Co., Lincoln, Ark., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, and having prayed release of the product 
under bond for the purpose of re-treating and drying down to the proper mois- 
ture content, an order of the court was entered, permitting the release of the 
said product upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of 
a bond in the sum. of $3^3, conditioned as required by law.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.