22481. Adulteration of butter.     XI. S. v. Carbon County Creamery Co.     Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 31480.     Sample nos. 29170-A, 29684-A.)
This case was based on shipments of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On April 7, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court an 
information against the Carbon County Creamery Co., a corporation, Red Lodge, 
Mont., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about June 5, 1933, from the State of Montana into the State of 
California, and on or about June 19, 1933, from the State of Montana into the 
State of Washington (destruction subsequently changed to Los Angeles, Calif.), 
of quantities of butter which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
" T. B. Klock & Co., J. C. Seattle, on."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product deficient in milk fat, in that it contained less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat, had been substituted for butter, a product which must 
contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, as defined by the act of 
Congress of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On May 2, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.