The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-21
January 10, 1925.

Inspectors At [
January 10, 1925.
To the Taxpayers Of Gallatn County
and the State Of Montana:
While attending q dairymen's con-
vention at Bozeman, January 8. in
which our honorable dairy commis-
advanced the theories that the
creamerymen's associations were sup
a compulsory law for pas
teurization Of milk and cream used In
the state-butter and ice cream-and
naturally including all other cream
and milk, we listened very attentive
iy to Mr.. Webster's eloquent argu-
ment in behalf Of same.
Repeating part Of same-he made
mention of the fact that At some time
tuberculosis had been transmitted to
a herd Of hogs; this herd Of hogs had
been fed on butter that had been made
from cream that was not pasteurized;
this said butter was put in storage
for some six months, after which the
same was fed to the herd of hogs,
and these hogs contracted tubercu.
losis from this butter. And in another
instance, that infantike paralysis had
been transmitted to children from ice
cream which had been made from
cream that was not p~asteurized. This
argument seemed to be extremely in.
f~luential in creating excitement among
the unthinking public, to the extent
that they believe they are dong them.
selves a great good by supporting 8
law that would make it compulsory "a
have all cream and milk pasteurized
He also included in this line of ar
gument that there should be q com,
pulsory ream grading law, that il
would be of great benefit to our stat
in raising the food value Of our butter
as well ~ raising the grade and quail
ity, and thereby bringing in a suffi
cient income to suffice creating Of
fees for inspectors, or e graders
as l believe he called them, relating
that he believed it would take fort,
to man the State of Montana unde1
the present conditions, with an ex
penditure of SIS a day per man fol
salary and travelling expenses.
Now, for the benefit Of the public
l wish to call your attention to tn
fact that under the present condition
we are heartily in favor of pasteuriz
ing cream for the purpose Of MAXIM
butter, owing to the fact that ther
is q great deal Of aged cream brough
in which can be improved by neutral
izing and pasteurizing, but do not q
low me to be misunderstood, becaus
a much better grade of butter ca
be made from cream that is swee
and wholesome; and while it Nigh
be beneficial to have this law. CON
pulsory, with As strong competitio
as there is nowadays, !. do not BELIEF
in such compulsory laws; and yet
know good quality butter would be
great advertisement for the state, b,
can be attained by the creameryms
themselves if they will have pride
that extent.
In regard to the transmission
tuberculosis from the BOVINE amin
to the human race-to our knowled,
no such thing has ever been placed
record, and is absolutely absurd fro
that point Of view. AS far as no
having contracted tuberculosis fro
butter that had been in storage +
some six months, it must have be
extremely bad butter to start with,
the hogs never would have received
unless it were another case of {
travagance somewhere, in some BIO
OF f~inanciers trying to raise the pr
Of butter for a private purpose on
because we all know that butter
hog feed would be very extravagal
and even though this argument W,
presented by an able representa-
of the government, employed az bel
efficient, / sincerely question that q
hog ever contracted tuberculosis fr
such sources.