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adulterated, so we just put the blame where it belonged, namely, 

 in tlie city, as far as we were concerned. 



Well, that was rather a bad position for the City Health 

 Department. The fault lay with the contractors. Then they 

 said that the Assistant States Food Commissioner could not milk 

 and that he didn't know anything about it, so they passed resolu- 

 tions in their different organizations asking the Food Commis- 

 sion, and naming the Assistant Food Commissioner to go out and 

 milk personally cows himself, and ascertain what and where the 

 adulteration was done, Herefords, Jerseys or any other kind. 



So, in looking around, I asked several of the dairymen near 

 Chicago where it would be advisable for me to make that test, 

 and my good friend, Mr. Curler, and two or three others told 

 me to go to Curler's. I concluded Curler's place was the proper 

 place to make that test, and we invited all of those resolution fel- 

 lows and the City Health Department to go out and see the test 

 made. We went out and made it and I want to say to the dairy- 

 men of Illinois and to the members of this Association that I 

 found your good President right there to see the test made, and I 

 have found him in many places looking after your interests and 

 seeing that the Food Commission was doing the thing properly, 

 and therefore I think that we as citizens of this state ought to 

 thank the President of your Association for his energy and ef- 

 forts in putting the blame and conditions where they rightfully 

 belonged, and the Dairy Association in particular owes a great 

 deal t(D the officers, especially the President and Secretary for their 

 ingenuity and energy practically without renumeration — the 

 Secretary gets a little and the President none — to look after 

 your interests, and I as a citizen and a farmer feel very grateful 

 to the President of this Association. 



Getting back to my original matter, we took samples and 

 milked cows and took the milk to the laboratory, and the samples 

 were all right and the farmers were all right, and the blame was 

 right with the city government for not protecting the milk after it 

 reac^ied Chicago. Wq stopped all of this argument because it 

 wat not on the farm, but in the City of Chicago. 



