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ment and dated it himself. I have the agreement in my 

 pocket. It provides that the work in the State of Illinois 

 shall continue to be co-operative, that the program shall 

 continue as before, the same system, that there are no 

 changes of any consequence in policy unless those changes 

 are agreed upon by both of the contracting parties, mean- 

 ing the director of agriculture and the chief of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry. The contract reads almost identically 

 the same as the contract v^hich has been in existence in 

 this state since Governor Lowden took office and Charles 

 Adkins was director of agriculture, with the exception that 

 instead of the federal man being in charge, the state de- 

 partment is in charge. 



There is the truth of the situation regarding the man- 

 agement of our tubercular testing which you have seen so 

 much of in the newspapers which you have read, protest- 

 ing against some of the pure milk products and the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. You have the facts. If 

 there are any questions on it I will be glad to answer them 

 at the close of this talk, for I am not talking without hav- 

 ing thought it over. I am not talking without having the 

 evidence with me in connection with the starting of the 

 testing, which was stopped because the Federal Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ran out of money with which to pay 

 indemnity some weeks ago. 



I will say that I issued orders last week to the state 

 veterinarians of this state, to resume testing. I notified 

 them that the State of Illinois would pay as promptly as 

 it was possible to get the vouchers through, the state pay- 

 ing one-third of the indemnity. I indicated that I sup- 

 posed the federal one-third of the indemnity would be paid 

 by an emergency appropriation to be made by Congress 

 which is now in session, but that if Congress did not appro- 

 priate on or before the first of next July, the State of Illi- 

 nois would pay the federal one-third of indemnity as well 

 as the state third, assuring the farmers that they would 

 receive the total two-thirds on the indemnity of the cattle 

 reacting to the test for bovine tuberculosis condemned on 

 the accredited herd or area plan in this state. 



