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man turned the cattle in and let them gorge themselves with all that 

 clover. Next day I got a complaint from Chicago "There is some bad 

 flavor in your milk." If I had known it, I would not have let the cattle 

 stay in the field more than a half hour, 



Mr. England — If you turn the cows in a rye field after milking time, 

 you will have no trouble. 



Mr, Or at noon. 



Mr, Curler — The care of the Cozv — I do not feel that I need to say 

 much more but 1 may emphasize what has been said. You must treat 

 a cow kindly in every way, if not she gets it back on you, she cannot help 

 it. You cannot abuse a cow and get good results ; she pays you back 

 the next time you milk her. Not only that, but in my high grade work of 

 producing milk for infants, I know that when a cow is abused her milk 

 is not fit to feed a baby, I can treat and feed a brute mother so that 

 the milk will make her own young sick. I know that to be a fact, and 

 what will make the brute young sick will make the human young sick. 

 One of the causes of my success in this infant feeding work in Chicago 

 is the care that we take with our cows to keep them in a perfect condi- 

 tion — to keep their systems in as fine condition in winter as in summer. 

 The cows are all treated kindly. We won't let our men go after the cows 

 with a horse, let alone a dog. Cows can be brought up as fast as neces- 

 sary with a man on foot. 



The cows must be made comfortable in every way. When I see 

 a man running after a cow and the cow getting away. I kw^w he has 

 abused the cow or she would not be afraid of him. I won't continue 

 such a man longer in my service if I can find some other man. 



Mr, Haecker — How much do you get for your milk? 



Mr, Curler — Twelve cents per quart. By the pint it sells for seven 

 cents, making 14 cents a quart. My agents get three cents a quart for 

 distributing the milk. My milk is distributed by milk dealers. We have 

 a little receiving room outside of the bottling room whore the milk is 

 emptied without the deliverer of the milk going into the bottling room 

 at all. It is emptied into a little vat there and from there it runs through 

 the separator and from the separator through the cooler which cools it 

 •down to 40 degrees in summer time when they need to cool it that low. 

 From the cooler it runs into the bottling machine and then the bottles are 

 kept with the wood pulp caps and on top of the bottles are put tin seals. 

 This is a circular disk covering the top of the bottle with four arms ex- 

 tending down below the rim and the tin strip running around connect- 

 ing these arms below the rim and this tin strip has a lead sealing in it. 

 The strip is drawn tightly, bringing those arms close to the neck of the 



