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where children are to be brought up by hand. I think that is 

 tolerably good evidence of its richness, independent of color. 

 They have found it to be the best milk for children who are to be 

 brought up 1>3' hand. 



I would be glad to learn the opinion of gentlemen present who 

 have experience as to the intrinsic richness of Jersey and Ayrshire 

 milk. If Mr. Gold's statement is sustained by experience, it is a 

 very important fact and should be generally known. 



Mr. Gold. Allow me to add one word. From my experience, 

 conversation with breeders, and general observation, I had estab- 

 lished that opinion in my own mind, in regard to milk throwing 

 up its cream. I announced it, in my remarks at the Dairyman's 

 Association in Vermont last week. I was followed by Mr. Hyde 

 of Lee, Mass., who delivered a course of lectures at the Lowell 

 Institute, in Boston, last year, and who is well known in agricult- 

 ural circles for his care and accuracy. He read a carefully pre- 

 pared paper upon the subject of milk, giving analyses and careful 

 reports. He announced the same fact with regard to the quality 

 of the milk of the Ayrshire and the Jersey, especially with regard 

 to the rapidity with which the cream separated from the milk, and 

 he went further than I did then, or have to-day. We were sus- 

 tained by Mr. Flint, who also spoke upon the subject of breeds 

 and breeding cattle. Mr. Hyde, without any qualification, an- 

 nounced that the Ayrshire milk, taking into account all its proper- 

 ties, was as rich as the Jersey milk, and Mr. Flint particularly 

 dwelt upon the point, that the reputation of Jersey milk was due 

 in large part to its color, not that it was actually any richer than 

 the milk of other breeds ; that while it was admitted to produce 

 this large amount of butter, the other properties communicated 

 to it by the Ayrshires and Devons had been ordinarily left out of 

 sight. But, as 1 have said, I announced these propositions before 

 that large collection of dairymen, and they were undisputed. 

 That is my authority. 



Mu. Thing. Living as I do on the line of the Maine Central 

 Railroad, between Winthrop and Waterville, I should feel it my 

 duty to sustain the Jerseys, under ordinary circumstances ; but 

 after the statement that has been made by the distinguished gen- 

 tleman from New York, I feel it my duty to offer a single word 

 of caution. A lady in Winthrop told me (she seemed to be in 

 earnest but she might not have been, I can't say,) that it was not 



