On or about May 18, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western Dis- 
trict of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel and subsequently 
an amended libel praying seizure and condemnation of 300 crates of pineapples, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Havana Fruit Co., Artemisia, Cuba, by way 
of Key West, Fla., on or about May 9, 1926, and that it had been transported in 
interstate commerce, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Box) "Cuban Red Spanish Pine- 
apples Imported By Havana Fruit Company Chicago-New York 36."   '
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 19, 1926, the Cadle Brokerage Co., Kansas City, Mo., claimant, hav- 
ing admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented that judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture be entered, a decree was entered, finding the 
product adulterated, and it was 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 $2,000, conditioned in part that it be salvaged 
under the supervision of this department, and the decomposed portion destroyed.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.