1450?   Adulteration of evaporated apples.    IT. S. v. 23 Boxes of Evaporated 
Annies.     Default   decree   of  forfeiture   and   destruction   entered..
(F. & D. No. 19094.    I. S. No. 22652-v.    S. No. C-4508.)
On October 27, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure- 
and condemnation of 23 boxes*of evaporated, apples, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Jackson, Miss., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by A. C. Hamilton & Co., Fayetteville, Ark., on or about September 15, 1924, 
and transported from the ,?tate of Arkansas into the State of Mississippi, and 
charging adulteration in violation.' of the food and drugs act. The article was-, 
labeled in part: " Evaporated Apples Mount Sequoyah Brand Packed By A. C. 
Hamilton & Co., Fayetteville, Ark." 
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It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated in. 
violation of section 7 of.the act, paragraphs 1 and 2, in that it contained an 
excess of moisture, which said moisture had been mixed and packed with the- 
article so is to injuriously affect its quality. 
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On May 10, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment;, 
of forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product1 
be destroyed by the United States marshal. 
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.   .',,