15988. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 21 Tubs of Butter.    Decree of con 
demnation  and  forfeiture.    Produet  released  under bondl.     (F.  &
D. No. 22912.    I. S. No. 20998-x.    S. No. 949.)
On July 6, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 21 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Boston, 
Mass., consigned about June 14, 1928, alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Mandan Creamery & Produce Co., Mandan, N. Dak., and transported from 
the State of North Dakota into the State of Massachusetts, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance 
containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted in. 
whole or in part for butter, which the article purported to be, the act of Con- 
gress approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter should contain not less 
than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On July 24, 1928, the Mandan Creamery and Produce Co., Mandan, N. Dak., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, 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 costs and the deposit of $500 in lieu of bond, conditioned in 
part that it be reworked, under the supervision of this department, so that it 
contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.