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prevented physicians from ascertaining its effects. Consequently we 

 must judge by its qualities. 



" No person would gainsay that these articles, if they contained germs 

 of disease or such materials as enumerated above, were unwholesome. 

 We have pointed out the liability and great probability of their con- 

 taining them, and many things have been publicly condemned on less 

 liability to produce sickness; for instance, the water of Albany has 

 been used by nearly 100,000 people for several years and no serious 

 results can be shown, yet the conditions are present which render it 

 liable to produce disease, and this circumstance has agitated the public 

 mind to such an extent that some of the best medical and other men 

 of the city have devoted themselves to finding a better supply, and 

 they have finally decided that it is expedient to obtain it from another 

 source than the present, which will necessitate the expenditure of 

 $450,000. 



" 'Bob veal' produces sickness in comparatively few cases, yet on 

 account of its liability to produce disease its sale is prohibited. 



"Dr. Fox says, in connection with anthracic diseases, 'that large 

 quantities of this meat have been eaten with apparently no injurious 

 effects, but so many disastrous occurrences have followed its employ- 

 ment as to warrant the medical officer of health in condemning such 

 meat." ; 



At 5 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m. the committee adjourned until 

 to-morrow, Friday, January 4, 1901, at 10.30 o'clock a. m. 



COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, 



UNITED STATES SENATE, 



Friday, January h 1901. 



The committee met at 10.30 a. m. 



Present: Senators Proctor (chairman), Hansbrough, Foster, Money, 

 and Heitfeld; also Hon. W. D. Hoard, ex-governor of Wisconsin and 

 president of the National Dairy Union; C. Y. Knight, secretary of the 

 Nation Dairy Union; Hon. William M. Springer, of Springfield, 111., 

 representing the National Live Stock Association; Frank W. Tilling- 

 hast, representing the Vermont Manufacturing Company, of Provi- 

 dence, R. L; Charles E. Schell, representing the Ohio Butterine 

 Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Frank M. Matthewson, president of the 

 Oakdale Manufacturing Company, of Providence, K. I. ; H. C. Adams, 

 and others. 



The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. I am informed 

 that there are present two representatives of the dairy interests who 

 are anxious to get away, and who desire to make brief statements to 

 the committee before leaving. 



Mr. MATTHEWSON. Mr. Chairman, I do not think there is any objec- 

 tion on the rjart of the oleo people to the dairymen going ahead, if 

 they are anxious to do so. 



The CHAIRMAN. There are two of them, and they have said to me 

 that they will not take more than fifteen minutes each. You may 

 proceed, Mr. Hamilton. 



