14200. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 12 Cubes of Butter. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 20915.    I. S. No. 10608-x.     S. No. W-1903.)
On or about February 18, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District 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 pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 12 cubes of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by B. W. Ellis, from Portland, Oreg., February 4, 1926, 
and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: (Rubber stamp) "E. W. Ellis Terminal Ice & Cold Storage 
Bldg. 23 Portland, Ore."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, namely, 
butterfat, had been in part abstracted.
On March 4, 1926, the Mutual Creamery Co., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared 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 $450, conditioned in part that it be brought into conformity with the 
law under the supervision of this department.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.