12789. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 157 Cubes of Butter. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond to be reconditioned. (F. & D. No. 18772. I. S. No. 20057-v. 
S. No. W-1514.)
On June 3, 1924, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, 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 157 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Union Creamery Co., from La Grande, Oreg., May 14, 1924, and transported 
from the State of Oregon into the State of Washington, and charging adultera- 
tion 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 had been mixed and packed therewith so as to
reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that 
a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been abstracted from the said article.
On September 26, 1924, the Union Creamery Co., La Grande, Oreg., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having 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 $2,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act. conditioned in part 
that it be reconditioned under the supervision of this department.
HOWAED M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.