"15983. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 22 Boxes of Butter. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 22867.    I. S. No. 03357.    S. No. 961.) '
On July 9, 1928, the United States attorney for the--District, of Columbia, 
.acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court of the district' aforesaid, holding a District Court, a libel praying seizure 
.and condemnation of 22 60-pound boxes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Markesan Creamery, Geo. C. Johnson, proprietor, from Markesan, 
Wis., June 26, 1928, and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the 
District of Columbia, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and
drugs act.    The article was labeled in part: " Markesan Creamery One Pound 
Pasteurized Creamery Butter, Markesan, Wisconsin."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter, which the said article 
purported to be, for the further reason that a product which contained less than 
80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product 
which should contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, as pre- 
scribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be, and 
for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article had been 
wholly or in part abstracted.
On July 16, 1928, Joseph S. Beall, Washington, D. C, claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, 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 costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
AETHUK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.