298 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



It has been almost universally conceded that there could be no germs 

 in milk unless the udder or mammary glands of the cows were affected, 

 and they were finding so very few thus affected, that it was necessary to 

 do something to scare this feeling of relief out of the people. Their re- 

 port shows one cow that re-acted to the test; but no tuberculous lesions 

 were found in the body, but tubercle bacilli were found in the milk and 

 cream. Here is certainly grounds for a suspicion that if these germs were 

 found in this cow's milk the old cow was not the guilty party. 



Their report makes no mention whatever of the thousands of cows 

 imported into the state under the proclamation of Gov. Tanner, which 

 had to be tested at great inconvenience and cost to the owner, and in 

 many cases to the ruin of the cattle. 



Another point in connection with the milk which these experiments 

 were made is the manner in which the samples were secured. One mem- 

 ber of this committee was present at the slaughtering house at the corner 

 of Butler and 40th streets, Chicago, where these cattle were to be slaugh- 

 tered and sav/ the samples of milk taken from the cows, out in the pen 

 adjacent to the slaughter house. No precautions were taken to cleanse 

 the udders or in any way to prevent the contamination of the milk from 

 other sources. 



Just think of it, taking forty-one cows two or three weeks after they 

 had been injected with tuberculin and condemned in the country, put in 

 a car and shipped to Chicago, standing around in filthy pens for several 

 hours, having missed at least two previous milkings, cornering them up 

 in the yard to secure a sample of their milk, then injecting the concen- 

 trated fined in large doses into the over-sensitive, delicate little guinea 

 pig, and then putting their findings into a report to prove the transmissi- 

 bility of tuberculosis from the bovine to the human. 



SAMUEL I. POPE, Liberty ville. 111. 

 E. J. FELLOWS, St. Charles, 111. 

 W. A. GOODWIN, Crystal Lake, 111. 



The remainder of the report is made up of affidavits from authorities 

 in support of the position taken by the dairymen of the state against the 

 regulations as applied by the Live Stock Commission of Illinois. 



