17124. Adulteration of  rabbits.    TJ.   S.  v.   175  Rabbits.    Default   decree  of
condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.   24436. 
I. S. No. 025554.    S. No. 2698.)
On January 11, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of New York, 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 175 rabbits at Buffalo, N. Y., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Johnson Poultry Co., Chicago, Ill., on or about 
January 4, 1930, and transported from the States of Illinois into the State 
of New York, 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.
On February 11, 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.
ABTHTJB M. HTDE^ Secretary of Agriculture.