12020. Adulteration and misbranding? of butter. V. S. v. 10 Boxes of 
Buttei". Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
net released under bond to be reprocessed. (P. & D. No. 18950. 
I. S. No. 19028-v.    S. No. C-4463.)
On August 16, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
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 the seizure 
and condemnation of 10 boxes, each containing 30 one-pound prints of 
butter, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
D. E. Wood Butter Co., from Evansville, Wis., August 11, 1924, and transported 
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adultera- 
tion and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: "Monogram Brand Elgin Quality Creamery Butter. 
The D. E. Wood Butter Co., Evansville, Wis.    One Pound."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that ex- 
cessive water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the further reason that a 
substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that a valuable 
constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted there- 
from.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the prints were labeled, " One 
Pound," which statement was false and misleading and deceived and misled 
the purchaser in that the said prints weighed less than one pound.
On August 23, 1924, the D. B. Wood Butter Co., Bvansville, Wis., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, to bring it up to 
not less than 80 per cent of milk fat.
HOWABD M. GOEE, Secretary of Agriculture.