17888. Adulteration of  butter.     17.   S.   v.  18  Tubs  of Butter.     Product  re 
leased  under bond to be reworked.     (F. & D. No.  25281.    I.  S. No. 
?6293.    S. No. 3535.)
Samples of butter from the herein-described interstate shipment having been 
found to contain less than the legal requirement of milk fat, namely, less 
than 80 per cent of milk fat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United -States attorney for the District of Minnesota.
On October 14, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 18 tubs of butter at Duluth, Minn., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Drake Cooperative Creamery Co., from Drake, N. Dak., 
on or about October 6, 1930, and transported from the State of North Dakota 
into the State of Minnesota, 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 by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk 
fat as provided by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On January 6, 1931, the Land O'Lakes Creameries (Inc.), Duluth, Minn., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented 
to the condemnation and forfeiture of the property, a decree was entered 
ordering that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of 
costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $200, conditioned in part 
that it be reworked under the supervision of this department, and should not 
be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.