16677. Misbranding of dairy feed.     TJ. S. v. 400 Bags of Dairy Peed.    Decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released under  bond,
(F. & D. No. 23669.    I. S. No. 012409.    S. No. 1897.)
On April 26, 1929, 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 coa- 
demnation of 400 bags of dairy feed, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Frederick, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by Rosen- 
baum Bros., Chicago, Ill., on or about February 1, 1929, and transported from 
the State of Illinois into the State of Maryland, and charging misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "77 
Dairy Feed Guaranteed Analysis Protein 15% * * * Manufactured by 
Vitality Mills, Inc., Chicago, Ill."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the 
statement on the labeling, " Guaranteed Analysis Protein 15%," was false and 
misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser when applied to an article 
containing a less amount of protein.
On May 9, 1929, the Vitality Mills (Inc.), Chicago, Ill., 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 ot costs and the execution of a bond in the sum. of 
$1,200, conditioned in part that it be relabeled to show its correct proteia 
content.
AETHXTB M. HYMS, BecrMwiy ,of Agrioultune.-