23591. Adulteration of cream.    IT. S. v. Eleven 5-Gallon Cans and Three 10-
Gallon Cans of Cream.     Decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 34861. 
Sample no. 23412-B.)
On November 28, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 14 cans of cream 
at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about November 20, 1934, in various shipments by Mrs. L. E. 
Page, Sulphur Rock, Ark. (from Batesville, Ark.) ; John A. Fuhrman, Hennes- 
sey, Okla.; Mary Sweetin, Kiowa Okla.; G. P. Talley, Colbert, Okla.; B. E. 
Pembroke, St. Joe, Tex.; C. R. Brackett, Bennington, Okla.; Lloyd Ratliff, 
Washington, Okla.; E. F. Rowland, Coweta, Okla.; Roy Sisney, Coweta, Okla.; 
W. G. Howard, Bonita, Tex.; Luther A. Keel, Coweta, Okla.; Mrs. F. M. 
Collie, Crocker, Ark.; Mrs. H. Osmon, Bald Knob, Okla.; and Howard Custer, 
Okemah, Okla.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was moldy, rancid, 
putrid, filthy, and decomposed.
On November 28, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human con- 
sumption and the consignee, the Spring Valley Butter Co., Kansas City, Mo., 
having recommended its immediate destruction, judgment was entered ordering 
that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.