FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 219 



''That for the information of the consumers of American 

 butter, who had much false information given them through the 

 press, .further by designing or erroneously informed persons, 

 that after this gathering of information that the facts are that 

 much the larger per cent of creamery butter is made from pas- 

 teurized cream, and we recommend pasteurization of cream to all 

 others." 



It was evident that everybody there was in favor of pas- 

 teurization. The department report seems to indicate that thg 

 majority of butter was made from unpasteurized cream. Th§ 

 facts are to the contrary. 



The following resolutions passed at the general meeting 

 give the results of the gathering; and the address by Secretary 

 Creasy of the National Dairy Union, given at the opening of 

 the meeting explains fully the purpose for which this great gath- 

 ering of representatives of dairying was held: 



THE RESOLUTIONS 



WHEREAS, In the Year Book of the Department of Agri- 

 culture for 19 1 2 appeared a report on the dairy and creamery in- 

 dustry of the United States, based on an inspection of only 144 

 creameries and dairies among the thousands in this country ; 

 and 



WHEREAS, Unwarranted and untrue inferences have been 

 drawn from such report by the consumers of American butter,, 

 and the information therein presented has been unfairly used 

 by interests hostile to the dairy industry to damage it immeas- 

 urably ; 



RESOLVED, That the facts are thus made .matter of 

 record and that report declared woefully incomplete in its sur- 

 vey and wholly false in its conclusions; 



RESOLVED, That its publication was all the more repre- 

 hensible because for many years constant progress has been made 

 m pasteurization and in general improvement in handling cream 

 and in the manufacture of creamery butter, until today much the 

 larger percentage of American creamery butter is made from pas- 

 teurized cream; 



