19270. Adulteration of  barley mixed  oats.    U.   S.  v.  250   Sacks   of  Barley
Mixed  Oats,  et  al.    Default   decrees   of  condemnation  and   sale.
(F. & D. Nos. 26277, 26278.    I. S. Nos. 26531, 26534.    S. No. 4624.)
Samples of barley mixed oats from the shipments herein described having 
been found to contain added water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
On April 23, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 500 sacks of barley mixed oats, in part at Haynes, Ark., and in 
part at Forrest City, Ark., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about April 10, 1931, and April 11, 1931, by Embrey E. Anderson, from Memphis, 
Tenn., and had been transported from the State of Tennessee into the State 
of Arkansas, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Barley Mixed Oats."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that added 
water had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for the said 
product, thereby lowering and injuriously affecting its quality.
On October 5, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
of condemnation were entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be sold by the United States marshal.
AETHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.