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had five tuberculin tests, so I suggested that he draw milk 

 from the four quarters. He did so and we took it to the 

 laboratory and injected it in guinea pigs. And we found 

 that that cow was giving off tuberculosis bacilli in the milk 

 supply. Naturally, we condemned the cow. The next six 

 months we had another reactor, a cow that had stood right 

 alongside of her. I just want to note these instances to 

 impress on your mind that you can't play with fire. 



Another man built up a herd and supplied a certain 

 city with milk from tested cows. His demand for this milk 

 became so great that he forgot the importance of feeding 

 the calves and bought neighbors' milk and fed it to the 

 calves. We got his whole calf crop three weeks ago. As 

 you can add cows and protect your herds, do it. 



Without the co-operation of the herd owner and he 

 realizing the importance of living up to a certain standard, 

 he can't expect to get by. 



''What about compulsory testing?" is a question often 

 asked of us. I am not a bit in favor it for this reason: 

 You can't walk up to a man and tell him you are going to 

 test his cattle. They are his cattle, his money involved and. 

 if I could not get that man's co-operation, I would rather 

 not test his cattle, because without his co-operation you 

 would not get anywhere. 



Where a large per cent of the herds in a county have 

 been tested, we should have a regulation giving the State 

 Department authority to let such a man who refuses to test 

 do one of two things: either submit his herd for test or be 

 placed under close quarantine. It would work better than 

 to go out and say: ''You have got to test." 



We do not find much opposition against the tuberculin 

 test, because people look at it in a different manner. We 

 know that the public gets nearly everything they want. 

 Here you are in a great industry, the dairy industry, hand- 

 ling a product which is a perfect food in itself. There is 

 not another food that we have which can supply what milk 

 can, and yet, ia it not a fact that it is the most abominably 

 handled of all food products? 



We do not drink enough of it for this reason; that, as 



