13548. Adulteration  and  misbranding   of  butter.     TJ.   S.  v.  6   Tubs   and   lO
Tubs of Butter. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 20217, 20218. I. S. Nos. 
14098-v, 14099-v.    S. Nos. B-5353, E-5354.)
On June 20, 1925, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 16 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Le Sueur Creamery Co., Le 
Sueur, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped from St. Peter, Minn., 
on or about June 17, 1925, and transported from the State of Minnesota into 
the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration and misbranding in vio- 
lation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that ex- 
tosive water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been substituted wholly or 
in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation of 
and offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 7, 1925, Clinton G. Heyd, trading as C. G. Heyd & Co., Philadelphia, 
Pa., having appeared as claimant for the property, judgments of condemnation 
and forfeiture were 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 bonds in the aggregate sum of $700, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act. conditioned in part that it be reconditioned in accordance 
with the ruling of this department.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.