14223. Adulteration  of  butter.     U.   S.  v.  16  Cubes   of  Butter.     Consent   de 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 20913.    I. S. No. 10606-x.    S. No. W-1901.)
On or about February 18. 1926, 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 pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 16 cubes of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by Swift & Co., from Portland, Oreg., February 5, 1926, and 
transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, and charg- 
ing adulteration 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 butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the 
article,  namely, butterfat, had been in part abstracted.
On March 2, 1926, Swift & Co. having appeared as claimant for the prop- 
erty 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 $468, conditioned in part that it 
be made to conform with the provisions of the law under the supervision of 
this department.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.