35720. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 4 Tubs of Butter. Default decree 
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 22669. 
I. S. No. 21680-x.    S. No. 671.)
On March 7, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, 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 con- 
demnation of 4 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Boston, Mass., consigned about February 28, 1928, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Gulf Road Cooperative Creamery, Randolph, Vt., and 
transported from the State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted in whole or in part for butter, which the said article purported to be, the 
act of Congress, approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter should contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On March 28, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.