17257. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. 3 Cases, et al., of
Butter. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction. (F. & D. Nos. 24807, 24808. I. S. Nos. 027665, 027752. S. 
Nos. 3034, 3051.)
On March 24 and March 31, 1930, respectively, the United States attorney for 
the Eastern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district 
libels praying seizure and condemnation of 6 cases of butter, remaining in 
the original unbroken packages at Brooklyn, N. Y-., alleging that the article 
bad been shipped by Paul A. Schulze Co., St. Louis, Mo., in two lots, on or 
about March 17 and March 19, 1930, respectively, and transported from the 
State of Missouri into the State of New York, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The article 
was labeled in part: (Carton) "Clover Springs Creamery Butter One Pound 
Net    *    *    *   Paul A Schulze Company, St. Louis, Missouri."
It was alleged" in the libels "that fhearticle" was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce 
or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and had been substituted 
wholly or in'part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article. Misbranding was alleged 
with respect to a portion of the article under section 8 of the act, general 
paragraph and paragraphs 2, 3, and 4, in the case' of food, in that the quality 
(quantity) of the contents was incorrectly stated on the package and in that 
it was labeled so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser by reason of false and 
misleading statements.
On April 23 and April 25, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.