13211. Adulteration and alleged misbranding: of butter.    XJ. S. "v. IT Cubes
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No 19828. I. S. No. 20483-v. 
S. No. W-1636.)
On February 5, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, 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 17 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., consigned by Snyder Dairy Products [Snider 
Dairy & Produce Co.], Medford, Oreg., alleging that the article had been 
shipped from Medford, Oreg., February 1, 1925, and transported from the State 
of Oregon into the State of California, and charging adulteration and mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance deficient in milk fat had been mixed and packed with and substituted 
wholly or in part for butter, and for the further reason that a valuable con- 
stituent, namely, milk fat, had been in part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the label bore no statement of the quantity of the contents.
On March 17, 1925, the Wilsey Bennett Co., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a 
?decree, judgment of the court was entered, finding the product adulterated and 
ordering its condemnation and forfeiture, and it was further ordered by the 
court that the said product be released to the claimant upon payment of the 
costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in 
conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be brought 
into compliance with the law under the supervision of this department.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.