14541. Adulteration   and   misbranding:   of   Butter.     U.   S.   v.   129   Tubs   of
Butter. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond. (F. & D. No. 20306. I. S. No. 5307-x. S. No. 
E-5373.)
On July 15, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 129 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned July 6, 1925, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Maple Hills Creamery Co., Bast Berkshire, Vt., and 
transported from the State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts and 
?charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with and substi- 
tuted wholly or in part for the said article, and in that a valuable constituent 
of the said article, to wit, butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the 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 July 21, 1925, the Maple Hills Creamery Co., Inc., East Berkshire, Vt., 
having entered an appearance as claimant for the property and having filed 
a satisfactory bond in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment of 
condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
might be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.