14179.   Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 30 Tubs of Butter.    Decree of con- 
demnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released under bond.     (F.  &
D. No. 20984.    I. S. No. 6220-x.     S. No. E-5682.)
On March 15, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 30 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
Elsdon, Ill., by the Farmers Union Cooperative Creamery, Kansas City, Mo., 
on or about March 8, 1926, and transported from the State of Illinois into the 
State of Pennsylvania, 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 containing less than 80 per cent of butterfat had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article and had been mixed and packed there- 
with so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength.
It was further alleged in the libel that a valuable constituent of the article, 
butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted therefrom.
On March 31, 1926, the Farmers Union Cooperative Creamery having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered with respect to 13 tubs of the product, and it was ordered by the 
court that the said 13 tubs of butter be released to the claimant upon payment 
of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $600, 
the terms of said bond providing that the product not be sold until recondi- 
tioned under the supervision of this department, nor otherwise disposed of 
contrary to law. 
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.