16828. Adulteration of butter.     U. S.  v. 31 Tubs of Butter.     Decree of con 
demnation and forfeiture.     Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 24043.    I. S. Nos. 011505, 011506.     S. No. 2251.)
On August 26, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 31 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Springfield, Mass., consigned about August 12, 1929, 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Ludington Farmers Creamery 
Association, Augusta, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin 
into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter, 
which the article purported to be, the act of Congress, approved March 4, 
1923, providing that butter contain not less than 80 per cent of milk fat.
On October 17, 1929, the Russell Corners Creamery Gov Augustav Wis., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, 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 costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this department so that 
it contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE,  Secretary of Agriculture.