FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 69 



Milwaukee, a year or two ago was upset regarding* the 

 tuberculin test and it was supplied for a time by diverting milk 

 from Chicago while they were settling their squabbles locally. 



It is getting to be seventeen years ago now^ since the first 

 long distance record shipment was made at the time of the Paris 

 Exposition in 1900. The Federal Division had a booth at Paris 

 and wishing to show the people of France what American milk 

 was like, they arranged to have the milk sent across from H. B. 

 Gurler of DeKalb, Illinois, to Paris. The man in charge told 

 me that the greatest difficulty he had to overcome was the run 

 from LeHavre to Paris, because they had no refrigerator cars. 

 It was delivered on the Exposition Grounds in Paris, France, 

 and would keep longer than milk brought in the same morning 

 from nearby farms. This milk had travelled four thousand 

 miles and seemed like a wonderful achievement, but to-day the 

 milk supply on certain ocean liners leaving New York and Phil- 

 adelphia regularly take not only their supply of milk for the 

 journey over, but sufficient amount to supply their passengers 

 back on their return trip. As they are returning milk is served 

 to the passengers 'sweet and in a satisfactory condition and still 

 it has travelled six thousand miles. Our milk, when properly 

 handled, can be transported to a great distance. It is perfectly 

 feasible from the standpoint of transportation alone to get milk 

 from Minneapolis to Chicago ; it is not going farther for your 

 milk supply than is regularly being done in your commercial 

 lines. This is a wonderful development from a few generations 

 ago when there was only a few miles between the cow and the 

 consumer. ' 



We want to protect our milk. What from? We say we 

 want a protected milk supply, first from adulteration of various 

 sorts. The last speaker pointed out the facts regarding adulter- 

 ation. Now^ I am pleased to say that this is a less common basis 

 for complaint than was formerly, and still, if I could judge any- 

 thing from the taste and looks of the milk served in some of the 

 restaurants here in your city, a little official activity on the part 

 of the pure food inspectors would net enough in the way of fines 

 in this town to pay all their expenses while attending this con- 

 vention. ( Laughter ) . 



The adulteration, skimming and watering of milk are about 



