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the tests in the drawer or shelf. Now I have a farmer there 

 near my place that I bought some milk of, and, according to my 

 verbal contract with this farmer the same veterinary surgeon 

 should make the test or I would not buy the milk. He could not 

 test the herd that week, could not for two weeks, and when he got 

 there he told me the herd had already been tested. He said the 

 other man wanted to do it and I let him do it. I said: "The 

 other man is only a horse doctor and he does not know a cow 

 from a nanny goat." He said: "What did he do?" He said 

 that he came in the morning and took temperature and went 

 home, came back at noon and went home, came back at night 

 and an hour after the last temperature he inserted the tuberculin. 

 I took pains to have two witnesses when I asked that question; 

 I didn't say anything to the farmer. I made an errand to his 

 home the next day so that I could see his sister before a witness 

 and she said he came and went and the next morning when the 

 farmer came with his milk, that was on the 25th of April, I told 

 him that after the first of May I would refuse to take his milk, 

 contract or no contract. The first of May came and he brought 

 the milk and left it. I had a team hitched up and I took it back 

 and put it on his side of the fence and he brought it back and I 

 took it back again, and by noon it was butter, good Elgin butter. 

 The third day he realized that I was a woman and there was 

 no use coping against a woman, so he did not bi ing it again ; he 

 got busy. 



A day or two later he wanted to know what was the matter 

 with that tuberculin testing and wanted to know if I was going 

 to take that test, that he had been to our State Veterinary Surg- 

 eon and had the records of that test every two hours. I told 

 him that Cook had his records for the North Pole, "Good-day," 

 and rang off. 



In a very short time it seems that somebody got busy and 

 went into the City Hall and threw out every tuberculin test made 

 by this veterinary surgeon of mine ; honest tests made with hon- 

 est fresh tuberculin ; temperatures taken all right ; everything was 

 all right. Now, this old veterinary surgeon felt terribly humili- 



