14866. Adulteration of  butter.     U.   S.   v.  4  Boxes   of  Butter.     Product   re¬
worked and ordered released.     (F. & D. No. 21290.    I. S. No. 11031-x. 
S. No. W-2002.)
On or about August 10, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern 
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 seizure and condemnation of 4 boxes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Farmers Union Cooperative Creamery, Billings, Mont., about 
July 15, 1926, and transported from the State of Montana into the
' State of 
California, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Sweet Grass Cry. Big Timber, Mont."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
product deficient in milk fat had been substituted wholly or in part for butter, 
and in that a valuable constituent, namely, milk fat, had been partially 
abstracted from the said article.
On November 17, 1926, the Sweet Grass County Creamery and J. H. Trower, 
Big Timber, Mont., having appeared as claimants for the property, and the 
court having found that the product had been reworked and made to comply 
with the requirements of the law, a decree was entered, ordering that it be 
released to the said claimants upon payment of the costs of the proceedings, 
and that the bond theretofore filed be exonerated.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.