17504. Adulteration of ground oat groats.    U. S. v. 40 Bags of Ground Oat
Groats.    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   sale.
(F. & D. No. 23857.    I. S. No. 012995.    S. No. 1937.)
Samples of feed labeled as ground oat groats from the herein-described inter- 
state shipment having been found to contain foreign matter, the facts were 
reported to the United States attorney for the District of Kansas by an official 
of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
On or about April 9, 1929, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 40 bags of ground oat groats, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Leavenworth, Kans., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Grain Belt Mills Co., St. Joseph, Mo., on or about April 5, 1929, and had 
been transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Kansas, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that foreign 
matter had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for the said 
article.
On June 15, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be relabeled and sold by the United States marshal.
ARTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.