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a cow from day to day. If she scares them oft, they will go back to 

 that cow. I have a simple little remedy. I take a lot of old gunny 

 sacks and tack them over the door and let them hang way down. That 

 scares the flies ofi* the cow. They go to the end of the barn and do 

 not go back to the cows again. The end of the barn will be covered 

 with flies, but they will largely leave the cows. 



Mr. Gurler — What becomes of them? 



Mr. Smith — They do not go from one cow to another a great deal. 

 They don't live long. ^ ) 



Mr. Gurler — They live long enough to leave a large progeny. I do^ 

 not mean to laugh at anybody's experience. Not at all. We can all; 

 profit by each other's work. 



I thought it proper for me to say something along the line of: 

 certified milk about which Mr. Bernays spoke. I was the beginner ira 

 this high grade milk in Chicago, and I had some interesting experience, 

 and I will give you some of my experience and then I will touch a little 

 on the line of the opportunities here in St. Louis. You understand 

 that I produce this milk mainly for infant food, and I explained yester- 

 day a great deal of the care that we exercise to have this milk right for 

 the babies, and there is more to that than you would think — more in the 

 feeding of the cow to produce this milk than you have any idea of. 



I learned thirty-five years ago that I could feed the brute mother 

 so that her milk would make her own young sick before it would make 

 her sick. I did that on the farm. Before I entered into this certified 

 milk business, I tried to work out the experience that I. had learned in 

 my dairy work for a long term of years. I could go home and feed 

 my cows so that in a week I would have twenty-five babies fed from it, 

 sick. I know I can do that. And we take as much pains to feed our 

 cows so as to keep them in perfect condition as we take in any of the 

 work connected with this business. It does not matter whether it is 

 summer or winter, we aim to keep those cows in perfect condition. Some 

 time ago there were two dairy commissioners who visited our farm, 

 one from Illinois and one from Minnesota, and after going over the cow 

 stables, one of them remarked : "What perfect condition your cows 

 are in ! The droppings look as though they were on pasture." I said : 

 "We watch our cows, and if a cow becomes constipated, we remove the 

 trouble, or if she has diarrhea, we remove that trouble — we do not allow 

 any trouble to exist with our cows when we are making cei;tified milk.'^ 

 You understand why that is so. Of course, this is advanced work, and 

 for ordinary work — milk to go into the creamery — you do not expect 

 that much care, but there is room for improvement in the care of ordi- 

 nary milk, and it has got to come. 



