14006. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 75 Tubs, et al., of Butter.    Decrees
of condemnation and forfeiture entered. Product released under 
bond. (P. & D. Nos. 20369, 20425. 20453, 20454, 20455. I. S. Nos. 1912-x, 
1913-x, 1914-x, 2004-x, 2005-x, 2006-x.    S. Nos. C-4801, C-4804, C-4819.)
On or about August 3 and 13 and September 2, 1925, respectively, the United 
States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, acting upon reports by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district libels praying the seizure and  condemnation of 1,400 tubs of
butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Nashville, Tenn., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by Swift & Co., Lexington, Ky., in 
various consignments, namely, on or about June 27 and July 3, 7, 10 and 14, 
1925, respectively, and transported from the State of Kentucky into the State 
of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that 
a product deficient in milk fat and containing an excessive amount of moisture 
had been substituted for butter, which the said article purported to be, and 
for the further reason that a product which contained less than 80 per cent 
by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product which should 
contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by law.
On October 23, 1925, Swift & Co. having appeared as claimant for;the 
property through their branch office at Nashville, Tenn., and having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture 
were entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released 
to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in the sum of $8,000, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reworked or rechurned under the supervision of 
this department so as to bring it to the standard required by law, namely, 
to contain 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, and it was further ordered 
that the claimant pay the costs of the proceedings.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.