16330.. Adulteration of dressed chickens. V. S. v. 7 Barrels of Dressed 
Chickens. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. &-D. No. 23000.    I. S. No. 01940,    S. No. 1087.) :
On August 18, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 7 barrels of dressed chickens, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
?. E. Cobb (Co.), from St. Paul, Minn., July 18, 1928, and transported from the 
State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in 
Tiolation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid substance, in that a 
portion of the said chickens were emaciated, a portion were green, the infected 
area extending into the flesh, a portion showed indications of incipient decom- 
position, and a portion having been insufficiently bled.
On March 19, 1929, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.