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cried some more, and then stood there and gazed on the beautiful 

 scenery. We have a beautiful farm overlooking Lake Michigan. 

 I finally found a ravine where I could work this off to my satis- 

 faction and I sat there with the beautiful serene scenery about 

 me and the ravine with the water flowing down, and I felt the 

 whole thing slip away from me; I felt that it was all over, the 

 game was up, that after working as hard as I had to have things 

 clean, to have plenty of air, good ventilation and sunshine and 

 have the thing right, to have such a blow struck at my cows, and 

 I began to think about it all and suddenly an inspiration came to 

 me and I got up and stood up. It was moonlight and I looked 

 at my watch ; it was 1 130 in the morning, and the thought came 

 to me and I really was happy. I thought to myself: "Why all 

 this fighting and fussing about this tuberculin testing; it is not 

 the tubercle baccilli that is the trouble, I have discovered an- 

 other germ, the most viperous, dangerous, poisonous germ there 

 is today in the world, gentlemen, a germ that if the Illinois State 

 Dairymen's Association can kill, it will be of the greatest benefit 

 to the world at large, and that is the "HOMO-GRAFTI" germ. 

 Now, I have coined that word and I hope it will be used, be- 

 cause I tell you, gentlemen, it lurks everywhere, and the more 

 I thought about it, why — the thing came as plain as could be. 

 The homo-grafti, its alfalfa is the greenback ; the corn is the gold 

 coin, when it is satisfied your milk is sweet, your stables clean, 

 your ventilation is good, everything is all right. But when it is 

 hungry, gentlemen, it sours your milk, the stables are dirty, your 

 bacteria is 500,000 — the way mine was. 



Now gentlemen, Dairymen of Illinois, don't lets have any 

 more trouble with this pure milk question for the City of Chi- 

 cago, because it is a fine thing politically, especially if you want 

 to be elected Commissioner of Health, to have these sensational 

 articles on the first page of the Tribune, make out we are killing 

 all the babies, that the milk is full of bacteria. What do I care 

 about the article that came out in the Tribune about Washing- 

 ton. Those things are not worth that much in my estimation; 

 they don't know anything about what they are talking about. 



