13704. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 1 Cube, 18 Cubes, and 14 Cubes of 
Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 20325.     I. S. No. 32-X.    S. No.
W-1752.)
On or about July 17, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis- 
trict 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 33 cubes of butter, remaining in the priginal un-
broken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Northern Creamery Co., from Great Falls, Mont., July 2, 1925, 
and transported from the State of Montana 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 butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and in that a valuable constituent, namely, butterfat, had been in 
part abstracted.
On July 28, 1925, the Fred L. Hilmer 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 $940, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that it be brought into compliance with the act under the supervision of this- 
department. 
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,