16716. Adulteration of dressed chickens. TJ. S. v. 1 Barrel of Dressed 
Chickens. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No. 23001.    I.  S. No. 01939.    S. No. 1088.)
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 Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 1 barrel of dressed chickens, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Dickerson Produce Co., from Knoxville, Iowa, August 13, 1928, and 
transported from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: " From Dickerson Produce Company, Knoxville, Iowa."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy and putrid substance. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that the article consisted in part of a decomposed sub- 
stance, in that the said chickens were emaciated and green, and the infected 
area extended into the flesh and showed indications of incipient decomposition 
and of being 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.
ARTHUK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.