7670. Adulteration of Ibralcd hay.    TJ. S.   *    *    *   v. 37,830 Founds  of Baled
Hay. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (P. & D. No. 10020.     I. S. Nos. lG336-r, 17639-r.     S. No. E-1299.)
On April 14, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 37,830 pounds of baled hay, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Stillmore, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about February 22, 1919, by R. H. Atwood & Co., St. Louis, Mo., and 
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Georgia, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable matter, 
said hay being at the time of said shipment and at the time of the filing of the 
libel in large part in a moldy and rotten condition.
On September 30, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, a 
default decree of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the article be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.