36772. Adulteration of Butter. 17. S. v. 67 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond 
(P. & D. No. 23893.    I. S. No. 08354.    S. No. 2063.)
On June 14, 1929. the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 67 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago. Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by A. T. 
Crouch's (the A. T. Crouch) Creamery, from Fort Smith, Ark., in part on April 
30, 1929, and in part on May 7. 1929. and transported from the State of Arkan- 
sas into the State of Illinois, 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 sub- 
stance, to wit. excessive water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, in that a 
substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly 
or in part for the article, in that a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been in 
part abstracted from the said article, and in that it contained less than 80 
per cent of butterfat.
On July 16, 1929. the A. T. Crouch Creamery, Fort Smith, Ark., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, 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 $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, so 
that it contain not les? than 80 per cent of milk fat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.