17139. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter.     Decree of con 
demnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 24629.    I. S. No. 011589.    S. No. 2771.)
On January 20, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 14 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Boston, Mass., consigned about January 13, 1930, alleging that the ar- 
ticle had been shipped by the Estelline Cooperative Creamery, Chicago, Ill., and 
transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Massachusetts, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter, 
which the article purported to be, the act of Congress approved March 4, 1923, 
providing that butter should contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of 
milk fat.
On February 18, 1930, the Estelline Cooperative Creamery Co., Estelline, 
S. Dak., having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted 
the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the 
said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $300, conditioned in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this 
department.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.