6323. Adulteration of oats. TJ. S. * * * v. 1 Carload of Oats. Consent 
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered re- 
leased on bond.    (F. & D. No. 7779.    I. S. No. 10609-m.    S. No. C-574.)
On October 21, 1916, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1 carload of oats, remaining unsold and unloaded from the car 
at East Joliet, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped on October 13, 
1916, by Taylor & Bournique Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and was being transported 
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Maryland, and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that wild oats, barley, wheat, chaff, dust, and small weed seeds had 
been mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously 
affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for said 
article.
On November 8, .1916, the said Taylor & Bournique Co., claimants, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to 
said claimants upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and other ex- 
penses and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that said article should not be shipped, 
sold, or otherwise disposed of except as oats and screenings.
E. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
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