13777. Adulteration of Butter.     U. S. v. 21 Boxes of Butter.     Decree of con 
demnation and forfeiture.     Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 20319.    I. S. No. 5308-x.    S. No. E-5433.)
On July 16, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 21 boxes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned June 29, 1925, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Caspian Creamery Co., Greensboro, Vt., and trans- 
ported from the State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, 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 
substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with and sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article, and in that a valuable con- 
stituent, to wit, butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
On July 21, 1925, F. A. Messer, Montpelier, Vt., having appeared as 
claimant for the property and having filed a satisfactory bond, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product might be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.