14588. Adulteration and misbranding? of butter. V. S. v. 5 Tubs of Butter. 
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Frodnct released nnder 
bond.     (P. & D. No. 21206.    I. S. No. 6299-x.    S. No. E-5816.)
On July 15, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 5 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Zanesville Creamery Co.,' 
Zanesville, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped from Zanesville, 
Ohio, on or about July 12, 1926, and transported from the State of Ohio into 
the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration, and ^misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act. 
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance containing less than 80 per cent of butterfat had been mixed and 
packed therewith so as to reduce, lower and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength and had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article. Adult- 
eration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the 
article, butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted. ' "
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an" imitation 
of and offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On August 2, 1926, C. M. Drake & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, 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 $150, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned 
under the supervision of this department.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.