16615. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    V.  S. v. 30 Tubs  of But*
ter.     Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     ProduraS 
released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 23884.    I. S. No   02965.    S. No. 205l3
On June 21, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District ,o: 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in thM 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizura 
and condemnation of 20 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbrokeff 
packages at New York, N. Y., alletung that the article had been shipped by tm 
Marigold  Dairies,  from   Faribault,   Minn.,   on   or  before   June   19,   1929, anj 
transported from the  State of Minnesota  into  the  State of New York, 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs sM
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sag" 
stance deficient in bulterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as f|
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On June 27, 1929, the Bryan-Duvall Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y., 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 $600, conditioned 
in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it contain at least 80 per cent 
of butterfat.
AETHUS M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture,