22 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Now, I want to get down to this tuberculin test business, 

 and I am going to speak my mind in regard to it. 



I went up to Madison and took a farmer's course two years ; 

 kept in touch with Madison and other Agricultural Colleges. I 

 have read Hoard's Dairyman ever since I owned a cow and know 

 Governor Hoard. I accepted it, I preached it — the tuberculin 

 test. Only a year ago, down at Edwardsville at the State Farm- 

 ers' Institute, you will see that Mrs. Durand was very strenuous 

 in what she stated about the tuberculin test, and what I thought 

 ought to be done in Illinois ; but, gentlemen, I have changed my 

 mind, and it was through the blundering of men who wanted to 

 harm me that has made me change my mind, and I think I am 

 going to be of some real benefit in the world after all. 



I have had my cows tested every year for tuberculosis ; 

 sometimes I have had one or two re-acters, generally from cows 

 I had just bought who had never been tested, although they said 

 they had. For the last three years I have had one veterinary 

 surgeon who has tested my cows with me every April. I have 

 the greatest respect for that man in every way. I have been with 

 him on other farms and I know that he is absolutely beyond re- 

 proach ; moreover, he has made the tuberculin test a study. He 

 has scrap books which contain everything that has ever been 

 written in tuberculin testing. 



We tested our cows in April; we had three re-acters of cows 

 that I had bought within the year; they were disposed of. We 

 sent our tuberculin test to the City Hall. I have never had a 

 tuberculin test made of my herd that I have not myself read 90 

 per cent, of the temperatures and I believe that I have as much 

 intelligence as the ordinary veterinary surgeon, and I believe 

 that I am honest. 



I wanted to do the right thing ; always have wanted to do the 

 right thing. I read 90 per cent, of the temperatures taken last 

 April, taken on my herd; I know that the themometers were 

 good and saw them properly recorded by the young man at my 

 side. We took some the day before and the day after; they 

 went to the City Hall and were accepted and I saw them put 



