166 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



people of Aroostook county will only make good butter and 

 cheese they need not be afraid of overstocking the market. 



I have often seen men in the city trvini? to sell their but- 

 ter. Well, you ask them what they ask, and they will say 

 fourteen cents, fifteen cents, etc. Another man will go into 

 the same city and sell his butter without any etibrt at a good 

 price, while the first man cannot sell his at all. And why is 

 this? Snuply because the man Avho cannot sell his butter 

 has a poor article, while the man who sells his butter readily 

 has a good quality of butter and people know what it is. 



When a man says one breed of cows is just as good as 

 another, he does not know. There is as much difl'erence in 

 cows as there is in horses. Then there is a great deal in the 

 way you keep your cows. You cannot keep cows in a cold 

 barn, on poor food and ice water, and have them do nicely. 

 A man should be careful with his cows as much if not more 

 so than he is with any other stock. 



The gentleman who preceded me, said he made butter in 

 fall, winter and spring; he did not make his butter all in 

 June, and when he makes good, hard, yellow butter in winter 

 he can sell it for a good price. 



Mr. Keyes. I am somewhat interested in this butter ques- 

 tion. Now, jNIr. President, in order for this county to start 

 into making butter, the first thing they must have is good 

 cows ; and having good cows, you want them well taken care 

 of. As has been said, you do not want to keep them out 

 doors. We want them kept so that they will give good milk, 

 and we want it clean. We also want to handle them very 

 •'•ently ; one cross word frequently spoils a good cow. It 

 makes little diflerence how much you feed. Some men say, 

 "don't give your cows too much to eat. Over-feeding spoils 

 them." I say it does not. The harder you drive your cows 

 the more profit you will get out of them. The more you 

 pour into a cow the more she will pour into your pail. Then 

 after we get the milk, we want a place to keep that milk. It 

 is no use to set your milk in the sun when the thermometer 

 is 100°. It is useless for you to undertake to make good 



