14137. Adulteration of butter.     U.   S. v. 48  Cubes  of Butter.     Consent   de 
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 20238.    I. S. No. 20134-v.    S. No. W-1738.)
On June 20, 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 48 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Henningson Produce Co., from Three Forks, Mont., June 12, 
1925, and transported from the State of Montana into the State of California, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The said 
cubes were rubber stamped " Bozeman, Mont., Bozeman Cry. Co."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in milk fat had been substituted in part for the said 
article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, namely, milk 
fat, had been in part abstracted.
On July 2, 1925, the Bozeman Creamery Co., Bozeman, Mont., having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property 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 $2,750, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary pf Agriculture.