10503. Adulteration of   middlings.    V.   S.     *     *     *     v.   400   Sacks   of   Mid 
dlings.     Jndgment   by  consent  providing  for  release  of  prodnet 
nnder bond.     (F. & D. No. 15604.    I.  S. No. 9328-t.    S. No. E-3645.)
On November 10, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of North Carolina, 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 400 sacks of middlings, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Franklinton, N. C, consigned -by the Mayo Milling Co., 
Richmond, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped from Richmond, 
Va., on or about September 23, 1921, and transported from the State of Vir- 
ginia into the State of N<5rth Carolina,' and charging adulteration iu violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: (Tag) "* * * 
Mayo's Bull Middlings * * * Mayo Milling Co., Inc., Distributors, Rich- 
mond,   Va."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
vegetable substance.
On April 12, 1922, the Mayo Milling Co., Richmond, Va., claimant, having 
executed a bond in the sum of $1,000 and having paid the costs of the pro- 
ceedings, in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment by consent was 
entered ordering the release of the product to the said claimant.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.