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this broad country of ours from one coast to the other, from East 

 to West, from North to South, and I would not give that much 

 for your gentleman farming. 



We now reach the point of this question of milk for Chi- 

 cago. I take it for granted that these gentlemen in front of me 

 are all producers of milk to the Chicago market. We are passing 

 through a serious time, gentlemen; we are being made a foot 

 ball of, in other words. Now it is a question of pasteurization 

 or tuberculin testing cows. I believe that Dr. Evans has missed 

 the key-note of the whole thing. I don't think we have to con- 

 sider either one or the other. I don't think it is such an impos- 

 sible task to go out among the 12,000 dairymen producing milk 

 for the City of Chicago and ask for windows in the stables, 

 for air for cows, sunshine, as much concrete walls as you can, 

 warm water, have some steam. Find a way of keeping the cows 

 clean — that is the greatest question — "Find a method of keeping 

 the cows clean !" I think Governor Hoard's method is the best, 

 that is of using a 2x4 making a ridge right in front of the hind 

 feet of the cow so that when she wants to lie down she is obliged 

 to pull her feet over the ridge, move the body up a little and 

 thereby keep clear of the gutter. It is impossible for the farmer 

 to keep his cows clean and you can't expect him to take the time 

 required to clean those cows in the condition he finds them in the 

 morning. Again, urge the farmers to k/eep their cows out as 

 much as possible on warm days and to see that the cow is prop- 

 erly cared for, that utensils are sterilized, that the milk is im- 

 mediately cooled. Now ,gentlemen, I don't believe the question 

 of pure milk is ever going to be solved by Dr. Evans or any 

 Board of Health, nor by the State Board of Health, nor by the 

 physicians, in fact not by anybody except ourselves, and I be- 

 lieve that we have too much respect for ourselves to have any- 

 body try to solve this thing for us except ourselves. 



Are we going to be lashed and whipped and called all kinds 

 of ugly names, and say we are killing the babies by the thousands 

 in the City of Chicago? Let us handle that pasteurization busi- 

 ness. They don't need pasteurization; when the milk is clean 



