16315. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 26 Tubs of Butter.    Decree of con 
demnation and  forfeiture.     Product released under bond.     (F.  &
D. No. 23598.    I. S. No. 05878.    S. No. 1819.)
On March 20, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 26 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Boston, Mass., consigned about March 1, 1929, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Lange Creamery (Inc.), Kansas City, Mo., and trans- 
ported from the State of Missouri into the State of Massachusetts, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted in whole or in part for butter, which the said article purported to be, 
the act of Congress approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter contain not 
less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On April 1, 1929, Armour & Co., Boston, Mass., 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 $1,600, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this depart- 
ment.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.