THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 19 



who I was and showed me time and again no culture. I learned 

 how it was made ; it was not honest. I went to the Pacific Coast 

 and I went to a certified dairy out there and there was a very fine 

 dust that blows, as you know, a black dust and there is also this 

 mud that sticks to these cows. The man had milked two cows 

 and the cloth (he did not change it) after that was absolutely 

 black. And yet the manager claims the bacteria tests running 

 for twelve months showed an average of 300. The customers 

 were being fooled. The babies were taking that milk. My ex- 

 perience this last spring when my milk was being tested by 

 Professor Hastings at Madison, showed that we were running 

 very fair milk, sometimes 15,000. A man sent out from the City 

 Hall happened to be there. He looked around and then wanted 

 a sample of milk. I said, "Certainly." He walked in and took 

 a sample out of a bottle. "Don't you want some ice?" I said. 

 He said, "No; this is all right." He left and went to the sta- 

 tion. I walked right in and took a bottle of milk next to the 

 bottle he took the sample from and sent it to Professor Hastings 

 — 2,700 bacteria, and I think the Wisconsin University is per- 

 fectly honest in their tests. From the City Hall came the report 

 500,000 that this man had had. I went in to see him and I had 

 never been into the laboratory before and when I was there I 

 saw a jug of "Crabtree" milk that they had picked up in the 

 street from one of my wagons. I glanced around and saw every- 

 thing, and I said: "I have come to see you about my bacteria 

 reading. However, it is not necessary to see you, I should think 

 from the condition of this laboratory that my milk would have 

 been five billion instead of 500,000," and I walked out. 



I believe, gentlemen, that the only solution of a pure milk 

 for the babies is not by certified milk protected by any commis- 

 sion, but is with a small herd that you and I can produce clean 

 milk that can be sold in the City of Chicago for 10c, that can 

 be fed to any delicate child. Take a small herd of 25 to 30 cows, 

 where the owner himself is vitally interested, is at the helm, and 

 with two men can milk those few cows and clean milk can be 

 produced. That is the only solution because I have gone across 



