13803. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 70 Tubs of Butter. Decree of con- deinnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. fP & D. No. 20321. I. S. No. 3036-x. S. No. E-5372.) ' U- & On July 14, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemnation of 79 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., consigned July 6, 1925, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association, Castle- wood, S. Dak., and transported from the State of South Dakota into the State of Massachusetts, 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 sub- stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with and substituted wholly or in part for the said article, and in that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted. On July 29, 1925, A. E. Mills & Son, Boston, Mass., having entered an ap- pearance as claimant for the property and having filed a satisfactory bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product might be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings. R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.