17140. Adulteration of -walnuts.     U. S. v. SO Bags of Walnuts.    Default de 
cree   of  condemnation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.   No.
24355.    I. S. No. 026729.    S. No. 2573.)
On December 14, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis rict 
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 50 bags of walnuts at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Wolinsky Brokerage Co,, from Los Angeles, Calif., 
November 11, 1929, and transported from the State of California 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 consisted 
in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 27, 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.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.