14563. Adulteration and misbranding; of butter.    V.  S.  v. 21 Tubs  of But 
ter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
released under bond. (F. & D. No. 21205. I. S. No. 8268-x. S. No. 
E-5810.)
On July 14, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 21 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., consigned by C. E. Bachelder, Marion, Iowa, 
alleging that the article had been shipped from Marion, Iowa, on or about 
July 3, 1926, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of New 
York, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Shipped by C. E. Bachelder, 
Marion, la."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 17, 1926, C. E. Bachelder, Marion, Iowa, claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, and having 
agreed to recondition the product so that it would contain at .least 80 per cent 
of butterfat, 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 $700, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed to the 
satisfaction of this department.
W. M. JAKDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.