X7. Adulteration of oranges.    U. S. v. 57 Boxes of Oranges.    Default de- 
it cree   of  condemnation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.
u 21804.    I. S, No. 16452-x.    S. No. E-6081.)
in March 22, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
asetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
'trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure
/Condemnation of 57 boxes of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken
Sages at Boston, Mass., consigned about March 14, 1927, alleging that the
cle had been shipped by the Wells Fruit Co., Wells Spur, Fla., and trans- 
,ted from the State of Florida into the State of Massachusetts, and charging
teration in violation of the food and drugs act.
xamination of the article by this department showed that it consisted in
lie or in part of fruit-damaged fruit, 
was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in .that it con-
d in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance. 
|h.May 5, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
'ftemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was .ordered by the court 
the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JAEDINE, Seoretary of Agriculture.
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