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fairly prosperous, and he was a little the worse for wear. He 

 had not been in Chicago many times and he got looking over the 

 edge a little too deep soon after he got there. His was such a 

 flagrant case there was no question about it so he came up to the 

 office and I said, "How did the water get in?". And he replied, 

 ''Well I will tell you fellows, I put it in there, but I did not think 

 I was breaking any law, I thought I was breaking the creamery 

 man." In another case a sample was taken on a very cold morn- 

 ing in November and the milk was frozen a little. We sent for 

 the owner and he came to the office. He was a jolly looking 

 fellow and I said, "Well, Uncle, how did the water get in?" 

 "O, you want to know how I ice my milk? You know it was 

 pretty cold and we poured the rinse water from one can to another 

 and before we got to the last can it froze and I said, 'What's the 

 use of throwing it out, it will cool the milk,' and I strained it 

 in." Another fellow in the retail business, selling off the 

 wagon, came to the office and I said, "Well, Colonel, a little hard 

 luck to have to come so far to Chicago, what have you been doing 

 out there, how did the water get in, was it raining that night?" 

 "No, it was not raining. I had quite a little trouble with my 

 milk souring so in the morning when I started I put a chunk of 

 ice in every can. I thought that would fix it." Another fellow, 

 a farmer, said, "I heard the neighbors say the best way to drive 

 animal heat out of milk was to put two or three quarts of cold 

 water in each can, and my milk did not sour as quickly when I 

 did that." These are some of the funny things that happen but 

 if these things had not all come out I never would have believed 

 that so much fraud was being practiced in the state of Illinois, 

 but as I said before, the figures are there to speak for themselves 

 so why should we not believe them. 



The Chairman : — Have you found any samples of milk 

 among the farmers containing formaldehyde ? 



Mr. Schuknecht : — No, I never have, it is always in the city 

 milk supply. 



Member: — They have every can sealed now and have only 

 tested milk as it comes in right in the car. There is an inspector 

 there who takes the farmers' samples. 



Mr. Schuknecht : — We do that but our help is so limited that 

 we cannot get at very much of it. If the dairymen of Illinois 

 ever have concerted action enough so we can get eight or ten in- 



