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the rural districts, and within a hmited range, as it is not found 

 desirable to transport the fluid too great a distance. Coming 

 pure from the farms, it might become butter if indulged with 

 too long a ride. The great bulk of the supply for Chicago 

 comes from Cook, DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties, the 

 famous Fox River Valley furnishing three-fourths. Through- 

 out these counties are hundreds of splendid farms entirely de- 

 voted to dairying, and the milk is either shipped to Chicago by 

 rail or sold to the numerous factories where it is manufactured 

 into butter and cheese." 



Another branch of this same industry, growing largely under 

 the direction of the scientist is the certified milk industry, and 

 while I do not wish to dwell on this phase of the subject it is 

 worthy of comment that the first certified milk of which we have 

 any record was that shipped by H. B. Curler, one of the pi- 

 oneers in da'irying, from this state to the Paris Exposition in 

 1900. To show you that even at that time Mr. Curler had the 

 correct fundamental idea the details of which are still being 

 studied concerning the production of certified milk I want to 

 read you a short letter written by him with reference to this| 

 first certified milk. 



'Xast August I got a letter from abroad requesting me to 

 send some milk. The idea of my sending milk across the At- 

 lantic with any expectation of getting it there sweet ! I put it 

 up on the evening of August 29th, milk taken without any es- 

 pecial care; took the milk as it came in for the milk bottles not 

 knowing what cows it came from. When I got ready I took 

 milk right from those bottling machines and put them into cas- 

 es and they went to cooling. This is where the extra work came 

 in, cooling the milk as rapidly as possible. The next morning 

 it was packed and shipped by express to New York; then it was 

 put on board a vessel, in the refrigerator, and started for Paris, 

 reaching there September 15th. The professor wrote me that 

 the milk reached there September 15th in fine condition. They 

 found it acid on the 19th, but just when between the 15th and the 

 19th it turned I don't know. Well now that milk was not pasteur- 

 ized, sterilized or embalmed. I just want to show you what can 



