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in line, but one of the worst features of a stanchion is the danger of one 

 cow stepping on the other's teat and inflamation setting in I am sure 

 that I have lost more parts of udders in my dairy from that one cause 

 than all other causes combined. That is enough to condemn the stan- 

 chion, let alone the sanitary side of it. 



I don't believe, Mr. President, it is hardly necessary for me to 

 describe my work. 



Mr. Campbell. — I would like to have him tell how he makes his milk. 



Mr. Gurler. — I don't want to blow my horn; I have told it at these 

 meetings several times, but am willing to tell you what we do. I will go 

 over it as briefly as I can. 



I would say this, I started that enterprise at the suggestion of some 

 of the leading physicians of Chicago, and they worked with me a year and 

 a half. before they convinced me it was a safe enterprise to embark in. 



After deciding to go into it, the first move was to work over my cow 

 stables, putting in cement floors and fixing the ventilation, etc. I used 

 the King system and plenty of light. My stables I utilized there by put- 

 ting in more light and cement floors. Well, after I got my stables ready 

 and had built me a little milk house, the next move was to have my dairy 

 tested. I had the State official apply the tuberculin to them right there. 

 I did not know where I was going to land, because we had no figures to 

 show what tuberculis serum there was in the State, but I got off with 

 only three per cent loss. One reason was I had been applying the test 

 for several years and weeding out poor cows. I started at 200 pounds of 

 butter, and I worked out my poor ones and elevated my standard and 

 kept weeding out until the last years I run my dairy for butter making, 

 they averaged 300 to 305.7 pounds per cow, counting everything old and 

 young; everything I milked. 



I think that process of weeding out the herd saved me, because I 

 had innocently worked out some of the bad ones. If a cow could not get 

 up to the standard, I sent her to the butcher and that was the way I 

 escaped so easily. 



My stables were all whitewashed twice a year, and now I have adopted 

 the rule that all the stables shall be whitewashed the first of every 

 month, and it is considered part of the work to do that once a month. 



