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ated. He did not tell me the City Hall in Chicago had thrown 

 out my tests ; he knew it. — about the first of June or in May, and 

 yet I sent certified milk into Chicago and it sold at 15c per quart. 

 Why did they not notify me ? Then I had a fire and a sale, but 

 before I had this sale in the summer I received notice — by the 

 way I had not been certified since the first of May by the Chicago 

 Milk Commission. I held off just as long as I could; my agent 

 went back on me and got milk that another agent was handling, 

 that made the other agent mad and he came to me and wanted 

 to know if I would not get the milk certified. In the middle of 

 the summer I received notice that they had decided to have the 

 government men at the Stock Yards test the certified herds and 

 wanted them tested right away. 



My herd had been tested in April and I did not want them 

 tested again until fall, until October or November, after they 

 had been brought into the stables to stay. I don't consider that 

 October test, so at my sale I made the statement that my cows 

 had been tuberculin tested in April — I did not know that these 

 had been thrown out. The Board of Health had not notified me. 

 So I sold some cows that went up into Salem, Wisconsin. A 

 week after they got up there I received a letter from this man 

 to whom I had sold them saying that he was having a terrible 

 time, the State Veterinary of Wisconsin would not O. K. the 

 test. Then I went to the City Hall and found that the tests had 

 been sent away. Then I found out what had happened. Those 

 tests were honest tests and I sent in the original tests which I 

 had gotten from this veterinary surgeon to Wisconsin and I then 

 received a letter stating that they would not accept them ; then I 

 wrote them a very sassy letter. I wish I had a copy of it here 

 to read to you, and I got this in reply yesterday from the State 

 Veterinary Surgeon of Wisconsin : 



"In looking over the temperature records reported 



by Doctor , which he sent to. Mr. , will 



say that in this case, even though the Veterinary Surg- 

 eon of Illinois would approve of them, these tempera- 

 tures seem to be impossible, and therefore would not 

 accept Doctor 's test under any consideration." 



