16766. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 37 Tubs, et al., of Butter. Consent 
decrees of coudenination and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond. (B\ & D. Nos. 23958, 24024. I. S. Nos. 04509, 04511. S. Nos. 
2122, 2152.)
On or about July 17, 1929, the United States attorney tor the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure 
and condemnation of 46 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
Packages at Chicago, III., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Mabel Creamery A-sociation, from Mabel, Minn., July 9, 1929, and transported 
from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulter- 
ation in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, in that a substance deficient in milk 
fatand high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said 
article, in that a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been in part abstracted 
from -aid article, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 5 and August 16. 1929, respectively, the Mabel Creamery Associ- 
ation, Mabel, Minn., and the Land O'Lakes Creamery (Inc.), Chicago, III., 
liaving appeared a^ claimants for respective portions of the property, and 
having admitted the allegations of the libels and consented to the entry of 
decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimants upon 
Payment of costs and the execution of bond^ totaling $2,000. conditioned in 
Part that it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, so that 
lt contain not le-*-, than 80 per cent of milk iat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, ^(crctniu or   iyt icultur?.