12312. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 25 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product reprocessed and re- 
leased upon payment of costs. (F. & D. No. 18509. I. S. No. 17697-V. 
S. No. C-4318.)
On or about March 24, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 25 tubs of butter, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Heron Lake Creamery Co. from Heron 
Lake, Minn., March 12, 1924, and transported from the State of Minnesota 
into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 
and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been mixed and 
packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality 
and strength and had been substituted in whole or in part for the said article, 
and for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the said article, to 
wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted therefrom.
On May 7, 1924, J. H. Hoar and Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, and the 
product having been theretofore reprocessed, so as to remove the excess water 
and to raise the percentage of butterfat so that it was not in violation of the 
act, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon pay- 
ment of the costs of the proceedings.
HOWAED M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.