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will just tell you exactly what we did in reference to this matter. 

 I was doing the advance work — going into a town with the ap- 

 paratus which was necessary to completely equip a laboratory 

 for bacterial examinations. After I had the laboratory equipped, 

 and I will say in passing that this laboratory in one town was 

 the High School Chemical Laboratory in the summer; the work 

 was done in one town in the Normal school laboratory; in an- 

 other town a Government laboratory was at my disposal, and in 

 the rest of the towns it was an office room which we rented our- 

 selves, I would start to find out how many people there were de- 

 livering milk, those supplying milk to the milkmen, etc. This 

 I had to go out and find out for myself because most Health 

 Boards had no records whatever of these people. They did not 

 know who was supplying the milk, nor who was delivering it. 

 After I had these preliminaries arranged I would notify the of- 

 fice in Chicago and they would send out a bacteriologist and four 

 inspectors. The next morning three squads collected milk sam- 

 ples from every dealer delivering milk to the people in that city. 

 These samples were hurried over to the laboratory which I had 

 equipped and the bacterial and chemical analysis made. The 

 next mm'ning the same three squads of men collected samples 

 from the grocery stores and the third day in the restaurants. I 

 always enjoy the last day because I almost know that we will 

 have lots of work on illegal samples. Our men would go into 

 the restaurant, order a meal and with it a glass of milk, and 

 take a sample of that glass of milk. There is a law that when 

 a glass of milk is ordered with a meal it should fulfill the quali- 

 fications of the standard for milk, as well as if that milk was 

 bought aside and apart from the meal. After the trip to the 

 restaurants we would follow up the fourth day by going back to 

 the dealers that we had visited the first day. By that time the 

 bacterial and chemical data were completed and we would know 

 how to deal with the dealers. If the analysis was good the men 

 were left alone; if not, we would go back to investigate their 

 supply. We would tell the dealer that we had found a high bac- 

 terial count in the milk he was selling and would then ask him 

 where he got his milk and whether it was produced on his own 

 farm. If so, we would go to his farm and watch him milk and 

 bottle and get it ready for sale. If the milk had been delivered 



