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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEXS ASSOCIATION 



else if you were the only man on earth, or no friends with the] 

 great crowds around you paying no attention to you. We work! 

 for the people we love, for the children we have. It is for the 

 little ones I have a word tonight. If there is anything we can 

 charge up against the dairymen of this country, there is none 

 gives us more regret, than the death of thousands of babies in 

 this country every year because we make dirty milk. It is true. 

 I wish it were not. I know personally of case after case of babies 

 that have died simply because they could not get clean whole- 

 some milk to use. I heard a" paper in Chicago a few months ago 

 that said that the number of babies that died in the United States 

 every year, directly attributable to impure milk, was at least 

 50,000. That sounds large, and probably is overstated. I hope it 

 is. Even saying and admitting that it is on over-statement, the 

 fact remains that a great many children have a great deal of 

 trouble getting started in life, because they are unable to get good 

 milk. Within two months, I have had, in the little towns at the 

 University, at least a dozen come to me any say, "Won't you give 

 us milk from the University dairy ? Our baby is sick, we must 

 have good milk, and we can't get good milk in these towns." I 

 am telling secrets, but that is the statement made to me over and 

 over again. One man came to me and said his baby was sick, that 

 it was three months old and that they had not been able to find 

 anything to agree with it. I told him our route was full and I 

 could not turn our customers away and could not let him have any 

 milk. A day or so later the mother came to me with tears in her 

 eyes and said, ''I am afraid my baby is going to die. Nothing will 

 agree with it." I told her I would send the wagon around tomor- 

 row. Whenever a case is as bad as that, we attend to it. That 

 baby hasn't been sick since. It was four months old when the 

 milk was sent and within eight hours the change was noticeable, 

 and within two days the baby was a different child and commenc- 

 ed to fill out. Before, it was thin and the skin laid loose on 

 the body and limbs. The baby will laugh at you now while before 

 it was a lifeless little thins:. You may rest assured that mother 



