12608. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 65 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product l'eleased under bond 
to be reworked.    (F. & D. No. 18438.    I. S. No. 12805-v.    S. No. E-4759.)
On March 4, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 seiz- 
ure and condemnation of 65 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Kosciusko Creamery Co., from Kosciusko, Miss., July 14, 1923, 
and transported from the State of Mississippi into the State of New York, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sub- 
stances deficient in- butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been 
mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its 
quality and strength and were substituted in part for the said article. Adul- 
teration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent, to wit, 
butterfat, had been in part abstracted.
On July 24, 1924, the Miles Friedman, Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, 
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 
$1,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it 
be reworked under the supervision of this department.
HOWARD M. OORE, Secretary of Agriculture.