16135. Adulteration of  butter.     TJ.  S.  v. 9 Tubs  of Butter.    Decree  of  con 
demnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 22908.    I. S. No. 21307-x.    S. No. 933.)
On June 30, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 con- 
demnation of 9 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Land O'Lakes 
Creameries (Inc.), from Duluth, Minn., and transported from the State of 
Minnesota into the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in piart: " Land O'Lakes 
Creameries, Inc. Duluth, Minn."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a 
substance low in milk fat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quiality and strength, and had been 
substituted wholly or in part for butter,., a product which should contain not 
less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of 
March 4, 1923.
On July 18, 1928, the Land O'Lakes Creameries (Inc.), Minneapolis, Minn., 
having appeared as claimant for the property, 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 execution of a 
bond in the sum of $300, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or 
disposed of contrary to law, and that it be reconditioned to conform to* the 
requirements of the Federal food and drugs act.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.