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on my side, I am on the side of right. That may sound ego- 

 tistical and boastful, but that is my position. 



Another question. Should we continue this tuberculin test 

 business? I have talked with a good many people who have 

 had their cows tested, and I believe this is the right thing to do. 

 It is not profitable to try to raise milk from a herd that is dis- 

 eased. Healthy animals are more profitable to keep. Is it 

 wise for an association to use one farmer's money to pay for 

 having another farmer's herd tested? The tested herd busi- 

 ness is not on the increase. It did increase for the first two 

 years, but is not increasing now. I believe in the long run it 

 counts. We have some of the finest trade in Boston using our 

 milk, and if we had poor milk they might drop ours and get 

 somebody's they liked better, and perhaps we would not know 

 the reason, but can't you see, yourselves, that if you have good 

 stuff, you would have good possibilities for profit if we had 

 enforced testing. 



OuESTON : Do you think that the tested herds increase the 

 price of milk? Do we get any benefit from what are tested? 



Answer: I tried to make it clear that I thought it would. 

 Several years ago a man from Boston asked me why we pas- 

 teurized our milk. Now the same man wants our milk pas- 

 teurized. There is no rule for it in the city of Boston, but 

 it has become generally accredited, and it is said to make milk 

 entirely safe so far as contracting tuberculosis from cows by 

 humankind is concerned. 



Mr. Holston : I understand they have invented a new 

 machine ; a clarifier or dirt tester. Do you use that ? 



Mr. Bradford: We take samples of farmers' milk and put 

 it through a little bit of cotton, sometimes dry it out and mail it 

 to them, and we have a contrivance if it does not run through 

 fast enough, a little copper affair so we can put samples 

 through faster than they would go through. A little pad of 

 cotton through which the milk passes, and takes out the dirt. 

 I think we have used what you are talking about. We have 

 had just as good a thing before, but it took longer to put the 

 milk through. Dirt and bacteria go together, so if the milk is 

 not kept cold, by the time the milk reaches the creamery the 

 bacteria would not be an absolute test of purity, because one 

 man might use ice, and the other one not, and the milk might 



