224 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Creasy's Address. 



Wm. T. Creasy, secretary of the National Dairy Union, had 

 called the meeting, and in an address explained its objects. Mr. 

 Creasy said : 



Gentlemen : The purpose of this meeting is to outline a 

 constructive program for developing practical uniform regula- 

 tions governing the production and care of dairy products. 



It is my duty as temporary chairman of this convention tcv 

 explain how the issue of the call for this meeting came about. 

 Representatives of the dairy interests, members of the Grange, 

 and officials of the Department of Agriculture met to discuss a 

 bill before Congress covering the matter of interstate shipments 

 of milk and cream. The bill was found to be far-reaching in it^j 

 effects, and it was the opinion of those at the conference that 

 the bill could be made a basis for national, state and city regu-^ 

 lation that would result in bringing about uniform regulations 

 regarding the production of milk and other dairy products frorn 

 the cow to the consumer. Added to this was the multitude of 

 regulations differing so much that the producer on the one hand 

 was very much dissatisfied, believing that, since they differed 

 so widely, they could not all be correct, and at the same time re- 

 ^enang little or no pay for additional regulalious that were a?) 

 often chanp-ed as new officers or inspectors assumed authorit}/ i;j 

 city governments. The consumer on the other liand was com- 

 plaining that he was paying a high price for necessary articles 

 of diet, which were being criticized as to their purity and whole- 

 someness, and was also meeting antagonism and unwarranted 

 attacks by other industries, upon this industry which brings to 

 the producers of dairy products of this country a billion dollars 

 a year. To this was added the unremunerativeness of the busi- 

 ness, together with the questions of legislation in Congress as 

 well as in the different states, relating to the important changes 

 that are being agitated by those favoring the industry, and by 

 those antagonistic to it. Taking these matters, with many oth- 

 ers not mentioned, into consideration, it was thought by those 

 parties in close touch with affairs that the dairy interests of this 

 country should be brought together in convention in this city to 



