14314. Adulteration of buckwheat flour. U. S. v. 338 Sacks of Buckwheat Flour. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 21058. I. S. No. 12229-x. S. No. C-5094.) On May 8, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 338 sacks of buckwheat flour, remaining in the original un- broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the King Milling Co., from Lowell, M.ch., March 11, 1926, and transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled: " 100# Net King Milling Co. Lowell, Mich." Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid substance. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a substance, excessive moisture, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted in part for the said article. On May 28, 1926, the King Milling Co., Lowell, Mich., claimant, having ad- mitted the allegations of the libel 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 $1,000, conditioned in part that it be relabeled under the supervision of this department and sold as hog or cattle feed. W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.