THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 15 



years and give you tonight my impressions and what has come 

 to me most forcibly in the production of a clean milk for the 

 city market. 



In the first place I want to say, when I went into dairy 

 farming it seemed to me that there was no work in the world 

 where I could be of more use than that of learning the business 

 of dairy farming. I took it up with the object of knowing what 

 the proper price should be, and when Mr. Mason introduced me 

 tonight as getting so much for my milk, will say that I have 

 demonstrated for myself that I get too much for my milk; that 

 milk can be produced with a low bacteria, perfectly safe for any 

 delicate child to drink and delivered in the City of Chicago for 

 at least three or perhaps four cents less than what I was paid 

 for it. 



Now, I started in, not as the wife of a wealthy man to draw 

 upon him for all I wished to use, but I was limited to $2,500.00, 

 all that my husband would risk on me and I started in in a mod- 

 est way, I might say a humiliating way, for the reason that with 

 that $2,500.00, when I got my first cows paid for and my first 

 equipment, I did not have much left, but got a few sheds up and 

 when the Chicago papers came out most gallantly, I was a little 

 bit ashamed when they started to come to see this wonderfully 

 sanitary dairy farm. The milk I bottled in the most ordinary 

 way, but the grit was there and I was bound to go on. 



The first sad experience that I had was when I realized that 

 there was such a thing as someone who probably did not want 

 me to succeed. When suddenly I received notice from some of 

 my customers that my milk was very foul, that there were pus 

 cells and pus found in my milk. I did not sleep that night. They 

 notified me that the laboratory had made an analysis of my milk 

 and that I was killing all the babies. I think I grew ten years 

 older that night, and I called upon Mr. Gurler and told him 

 about it and he said he had had similar experiences and for me 

 to do nothing, but the next morning I sent two samples taken 

 side by side, one to Professor Hastings of the University of 

 Wisconsin at Madison and the other sample to the bacteriologist 



