17103. Adulteration of dressed poultry. IT. 8. -v. 9 Barrels of Dressed 
Poultry. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.    (F. & D. No. 24185.    I. S. No. 020649.    S. No. 2428.)
On October 28, 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 seizure 
and condemnation of 9 barrels of dressed poultry at Chicago, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Fairmont Packing Co., from Fairmont, 
Minn., on October 16, 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 part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance; in that decomposed, 
emaciated, and tubercular birds were present therein; and in that it was the 
product of diseased animals.
On February 20, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTTB M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture.