Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^^ 



nature in some folks as others, and maybe more." It looks as 

 though it were very much a question of opportunity with some 

 people whether they work the pump or not. Now we do not 

 propose to permit that any longer. Our method is to call the 

 dairyman in and ask him to explain (under the law we are obliged 

 to do that) how it is his cows gave that amount of water on that 

 particular day, and we find that about 80 per cent of those called 

 in will adrnit that their horse ran away that day, that there was 

 a rain storm, or that the can tipped over in the trough that 

 particular morning. While we have been pretty lenient with 

 them, it has been mutually agreed, sometimes the agreement being 

 bolstered up by a small deposit with the Justice of the Peace, 

 and so on, that the tanks should be fixed so the cans cannot tip 

 over in the future,- — and the tanks are being fixed. 



Then outside of our city milk supply we find another very 

 interesting thing, and that is the farmer selling m.ilk to cream- 

 eries, cheese factories, bottling plants and various places of that 

 kind. We do not pretend as a rule to pay quite as close atten- 

 tion to this phase of the business, but nevertheless it is something 

 that should be looked after because I see no good reason why 

 abuses should be condoned in that particular field any more than 

 they are elsewhere. - The revelations that we found in that parti- 

 cular phase of the milk supply were very interesting. Out of a 

 total of 2,400 samples examined, the inspector picked up and 

 brought in to the office 300 in which he used a lactometer, and 

 these samples were brought in because they were suspicious 

 looking. Out of the 300 brought in, about 76 or 78 proved to 

 be either skimmed or watered. 



It is not easy to believe that state of affairs would exist in 

 the state of Illinois today, gentlemen, but it did. It did exist 

 or figures do not count for anything. Figures and science must 

 be thrown to the winds or those figures must stand as facts be- 

 cause they are on our records and are there to stay. Now there 

 is competition of the kind that you gentlemen who are producing 

 a good, clean, honest product never figured on having when you 

 entered the business, and you should not be asked to compete 

 with such conditions. These factors are things that you cannot 

 figure with the honest dairy cow, the cow was not built for that 

 purpose, and you are not going to overcome them of your own 

 accord very easily but we are going to help you. We are doing 



