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in Chicago, and his report stated that I had pus cells in my milk. 

 I telegraphed Professor Hastings to watch out for pus cells, 

 this was on Thursday morning, the next afternoon I received 

 the report from the Chicago office — I could get one by wireless 

 as quick as that — the pus cells were still there. Two or three 

 days later, I was thinking it was taking Professor Hastings 

 quite a while, I received his report stating that there were no pus 

 cells, "There is nothing but white blood corpuscles ; anyone who 

 says that they are pus cells does not know what they are talking 

 about." I have since learned that you cannot tell in any event 

 without examining the udder of the cow. I then interviewed the 

 Chicago office and asked them what right their bacteriologist 

 had to say that my milk had pus cells ? When I first went in I 

 looked very harmless, but I was prepared for him because I had 

 good authority. I said, "What is your authority?" He said he 

 himself was authority. Now I have the written evidence in that 

 case, whether I shall ever use it in time or not, I do not know, 

 but that was my first experience in running up against anything 

 of that sort. 



I employed two managers for the first seventeen months 

 and as I was losing money at such a rate with the managers, I 

 made up my mind I would not have a cow left inside of two or 

 three months if I did not give up the managers and go into it 

 myself, so I rolled up my sleeves, discharged the manager and 

 went into it myself. 



I found again that my milk was terrible; I was having 

 500,000 to a million bacteria. I did not know at the time that 

 my discharged manager had gone in there, I did not know what 

 was the matter. I finally thought it was suspicious, so I put a 

 sample of milk from another man's dairy into a "Crabtree" bot- 

 tle and I found that the word "Crabtree" made the word "bac- 

 teria." 



I have learned, during the production of clean milk, that 

 the hardest thing of all is to come up against this unfair and 

 tricky competition and I am here tonight, gentlemen, and am 

 very glad to be here before the Illinois State Dairymen's Asso- 



