16578. Adulteration of shell eggs.    TJ.  S. v. 4 Cases of Eggs.    Default de 
cree   of   condemnation,  forfeiture,  and   destruction.     (W.   &  D.   No.
24361. I. S. No. 020898. S. No. 2288.)
On or about August 22, 1929, 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 seiz- 
ure and condemnation of 4 cases of eggs at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Cummins Co., Eagle Lake, Minn., August 10, 1929, 
and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged, in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
At the October, 1929, term of said court, 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.