10059. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 12 Tubs of Butter. Decree of con- 
demnation and forfeiture. Product i*eleased upon deposit of col- 
lateral.     (F. & D. No. 22909.    I. S. No. 20997-x.    S. No. 934.)
On or about July 2, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, 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 12 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Boston, Mass., consigned about June 20, 1928, alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Patch Grove Creamery, Bridgeport, Wis., and transported 
from the State of Wisconsin 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 sub- 
stituted 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 shall contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On July 0, 1928, the Patch Grove Creamery, Patch Grove, Wis., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, 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 deposit of $700 in lieu of bond, conditioned in part 
that it be reworked under the supervision of this department, so that it contain 
at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE. Secretary of Agriculture.