264 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



The President. It is almost time for us to close this dis- 

 cussion, but before we do so I want to say a word. 



Now there is just one thing about this whole matter that 

 we have been discussing and that is, comfort. Make your cat- 

 tle, your stock, comfortable and they will thrive. When you 

 talk about this matter of your cows being turned out into the 

 cold I think we should be guided largely by what makes them 

 comfortable or uncomfortable. 



Now you take a cow that has been used to a warm stable, 

 and has been fed in such a manner as to open her pores, and 

 let that cow out on a cold day to stand around and there will 

 be trouble. Such a course of treatment would not be at all 

 proper for that cow. The cow is not comfortable and cannot 

 do well while remaining in that condition. That is all there is 

 to it. It is just so when you get to the point of palatability. 

 Some things may contain but a small percentage of goodness, 

 according to the figures that the professors give us, but there 

 may be something about that kind of food that cattle like, and 

 when that is the case there is more than just a small percentage 

 of goodness in that food. The animal likes it. There is evi- 

 dently something in the nature of the animal which prompts it 

 to eat that food. It makes the animal comfortable. That is 

 the point. 



Now I think that the Secretary has something to say and 

 then we will adjourn. 



Secretary Brown. I hope no member of this convention 

 will go away from the hall without looking carefully at the 

 specimens of the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth which 

 are on the table in the rear, which have been preserved by the 

 Connecticut Experiment Station for our instruction. I want 

 you to look at those specimens carefully so as to be able to 

 identify them, and when you discover them in the State of 

 Connecticut, as Dr. Forbush says we surely will within the 

 next five years, — as soon as you discover specimens of either 

 the gypsy moth or the brown-tail moth in this State, I want 



