25679. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S.  v.   1  Can  of Butter.     Default decree  of
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 36553.    Sample 
no. 39884-B.)
This product contained maggots, rodent hairs, insect, and nondescript dirt.
On October 16, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one can of butter at Baltimore, 
Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about October 14, 1935, from Gretna, Va., and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. Shipment was made by W. B. Hunt, Gretna, 
Va.    The article was labeled in part: (Shipping tag) "W. B. Hunt Gretna Va."
Adulteration of the product was charged under the allegation that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On November 21, 1935, no claimant having appeared, a default decree of con- 
demnation, forfeiture, and destruction was entered.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.