26 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Doctor somebody of Canada had written a paper in which he 

 said that the case might be at sometime or other it might happen, 

 about as definite as that, that a cow will have a perfect arc during 

 the night and be perfectly normal during the day when you take 

 the temperature. "Did you ever hear, see, or know of a case?" 

 I asked. They did not know; there might have been a case 

 somewhere, sometime. I told them I would put $1,000 into the 

 bank at Lake Forest to their credit if they could show me a cow 

 that would have a perfect arc during the night and not re-act 

 during the day, and they could give it to any charity they wished. 

 I told them that I had been taught at the college the proper way 

 to make the test and that I considered this test irregular; that 

 they had no right to experiment on a certified herd, and that 

 to get them up during the night I would have a shortage of milk 

 which I could not afford to do on account of the babies that 

 needed it. I asked them why they did not experiment on some 

 other herd, but I will tell you here that I did not let them have 

 any electric light, they had to use lanterns; and I did not give 

 them anything to eat at twelve o'clock, but they did help them- 

 selves to my milk. They took the temperatures and the next 

 day when I came out in the afternoon they told me that ten of 

 my best cows were re-acters, a Holstein that had made 17,000 

 pounds the previous year and a three-year-old Holstein just 

 freshened with calf which was giving 65 to 70 pounds a day. 

 We have not got enough of those cows to have them go like 

 that. Those cows were in good shape, ate their feed, were sleek, 

 fine and healthy. After they had left I went down to the alfalfa 

 field and I sat down and I did not cry; I howeled. I had not 

 cried so hard since I was five years old. Then I came in and 

 tried to eat some soup, it stuck in my throat and I could not eat. 

 They tried to get me to eat, but I said: "You might just as well 

 leave me alone; don't you try and feed me; I am going away." 

 I had on a very thin waist and a white woolen skirt, I remember, 

 and I started to run and ran hard until I got down to the pas- 

 ture with the beautiful maples and under these trees were my 

 sixty-five cows. They saw me and came up to the fence and I 



