20603. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. Stewartvllle Cooperative Creamery Association. Plea of guilty. Fine, $40. (F. & D. no. 28121. I.S. no. 28766.) This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter, samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter prescribed by Congress. On January 24,1933, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the Stew- artville Cooperative Creamery Association, a corporation, Stewartville, Minn., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 16,1931, from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter that was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: (Carton) "Ayrshire Brand * * * Creamery Butter sold by H. C. Christians Co., Johnson Creek, Wis." It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substi- tuted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat as required by the act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be. On January 24, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be half of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $40. R. G. TTTGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.