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should always be kept where the air is free from any contami- 

 nating odors. Illustrative of the effective flavor, I am going to 

 repeat a statement that I heard ex-Governor Hord make last 

 fall. At the National Convention of the Association of Veteri- 

 narians of the United States and Canada held in Chicago, I no- 

 ticed on the program for one evening that ex-Governor Hord 

 was going to give a talk. I attended the session that evening 

 and Governor Hord in his remarks, related this instance. He 

 said that a doctor at Fort Atkinson where he lives, came to him 

 one day and said : ''Governor, I want to get some milk from your 

 herd for a child patient of mine who is starving. We have tried 

 everything on the child and she will either not take it or retain 

 it." The Governor said, ''You can certainly have the milk, but 

 it is just pure, sanitary milk." The Doctor said he would like 

 to try it. Well, they got some of this milk from the Governor's 

 herd, and the nurse when she came to feed it to the baby, cov- 

 ered over most of the opening of the cup so that the baby could 

 not see what was being given to it, getting around any prejudice 

 that the baby might have formed. The baby took to the milk, 

 ran its little tongue out and licked its lips and then drank the 

 half cupful of milk, and went to sleep. When it awakened, they 

 gave it some more. The baby thrived on this milk and recov- 

 ered. The Governor said he could not quite understand how that 

 was until during last summer, he got hold of a book written by 

 some gentleman in Europe, a large volume of several hundred 

 pages, given over entirely to the flavor on digestion. After read- 

 ing the book, he knew why the baby thrived on that milk. That 

 milk was clean and perfectly flavored and it was probably the 

 only food up to that time that had been given to it that was 

 satisfactory in flavor from the child's viewpoint. 



Let us illustrate in another way: you think of something 

 or see something to eat that you like, your mouth immediately 

 begins to water. Now, that watering of the mouth is the secre- 

 tion of saliva and at the same time in the stomach is going on 

 a secretion of digestive juices and the stomach is getting ready 

 to digest this food before you put it into your mouth, showing 



