THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 25 



That is a reflection upon me because I saw those tempera- 

 tures taken myself. And this man don't want those cows there 

 and I don't want them here, so what are you going to do? 



It was agreed that upon a certain day the government men 

 from Chicago would test my herd of sixty-five cows. On the 

 appointed day I heard a car stopped and looked out and saw a 

 REGIMENT, seven men. I went out to meet them and I said : 

 "Gentlemen, you have made a mistake." They said: "Why, is 

 not this the day and is not this Mrs. Durand?" "Yes," I said, 

 but we have sixty-five cows and you should have one man to each 

 cow; you have not enough men." And they said: "Two more 

 are coming tonight." That made nine men. I said : "You should 

 have one man for every cow, and as we have sixty-five cows to 

 test today you should have brought sixty-five men." They went 

 into the stables and took the temperatures during the day. I did 

 not pay much attention to them until it came to one cow and we 

 had a little controversy over one cow and I won out on that. I 

 wasted 50 cents telephoning that night to notify the "other two" 

 not to come, though it would be cheaper than boarding them, but 

 they came anyway. I said: "When are you going to inject the 

 tuberculin, because I want to see the amount put in my cows, 

 and I want to know all about it." I want to tell you that I love 

 my cows, and I am going to be there. I was obliged to go away 

 and they said they would make the test at nine o'clock that night. 

 I returned at a quarter of nine and the whole thing was done. 

 The turbeculin had been injected, and they wanted to know if the 

 electric light would burn all night. I said, what do you want of 

 light all night for, and they said, "We are going to take the tem- 

 peratures every hour and a half after injecting the tuberculin." 

 I said : "Not on my cows," and I asked them where they got the 

 authority to come out here and test my cows all day and all night. 

 They said they had authority from the government. Perhaps 

 some of you noticed the headlines that appeared shortly after 

 that: "MRS. SCOTT DURAND IS GOING TO THRASH 

 THE GOVERNMENT." But I asked them: "Where did you 

 get your idea about testing in that manner?" They said that 



