14017. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.     V. S. v. lO Cases of Bat 
ter.    Decree   of  condemnation   entered.     Product   released  under 
bond.     (P. & D. No. 20684.    I. S. No. 7207-x.    S. No. E-5552.)
On or about November 16, 1925, the United States attorney for the District 
of Maryland, 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 10 cases of butter, consigned November 7, 1925, 
and remaining in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Good Thunder Cooperative Dairy 
Assoc, from Chicago, Ill., and transported from the State of Illinois into the 
State of Maryland, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation 
of the food and drugs act as amended. The article was labeled in part; 
" Butter One Pound Net."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance low in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been 
substituted wholly or in part for butter, a product which should contain not 
less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by law.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article, for the further reason that 
the statements " Butter" and " One Pound Net," borne on the labels, were 
false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, and for the 
further reason that the article was food in package form and the quantity 
of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of 
the package.
On November 30, 1925, the Good Thunder Cooperative Dairy Assoc, Good 
Thunder, Minn., having appeared as claimant for the property, judgment 
of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the prod- 
uct be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the pro- 
ceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it not be sold or disposed of 
until properly labeled to show its contents, and inspected and approved by 
this department.
H. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.