23925. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 1 Can of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.    &   D.   no.    33191.    Sample   no. 
4702-B.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment Involved in this case were 
found to contain maggots, insects, animal hair, mold, and other filth.
On July 9, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one can of butter at 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped In interstate 
commerce, on or about July 6, 1934, by R. O. Shumaker, from Wilson, W. Va., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled In part: (Tag) "R. C. Shumaker, Wilson, W. Va."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On August 17, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and destruction of the product was ordered.
M. Ii. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.