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it out two or three times under the roller, and in bringing it together 

 again, if there is an}' moisture you want to get out, use sponges, 

 and bring it together by the same method. That is a general out- 

 line of it. 



Question. You say 3'ou feed corn meal. Do you think 3'^ou get 

 as much and as good butter from corn meal and wheat bran as you 

 can from wheat bran and cotton seed ? 



Mr. BowDiTCH. I know I can get better butter from corn meal 

 than from anything else 1 have ever fed. I don't know of any 

 butter that brings the highest price that is not from cows fed on corn 

 meal. The Darlington butter that has such a wonderful reputation 

 is from hay and grain, and almost no bran. He gives his cows all 

 they can eat of clover ha}' and meal. We would all feed clover hay 

 if we could get it. If you make medium priced butter, thirty-five 

 or forty cents a pound, you can feed from ensilage bran and cotton 

 seed. It gives very nice and good butter ; but I am speaking of 

 what I know more about, and that is the higher priced or fancy butter. 

 A friend of mine has a herd of Guernseys and runs a sort of private 

 creamery, having several herds of cows in the neighborhood. 

 He feeds his grade and common cows on ensilage, and makes a 

 hundred or more pounds a day of the common grade of butter, as 

 he calls it, from purchased milk, and gets about forty cents for it ; 

 and it is ver}' good butter. He is not in the habit of feeding ensilage 

 to his Guernsey stock, but makes that butter up separately, and 

 that brings a good deal more a pound. His man thought he would 

 try an experiment of feeding ensilage to the Guernsey's without 

 his master's knowledge, and the result was that the butter did not 

 bring as much as usual. It may be the taste of the people were 

 vitiated by having butter from cows fed on hay and corn meal, but 

 that I don't know. 



Question. How much meal do 3'ou use? 



Mr. BowDiTCH. Four quarts, and sometimes a little more to 

 an old cow that needs a little building up, and two or three to a 

 heifer. 



Question. Do you ever get as good flavored butter from dried corn 

 fodder as hay ? 



Mr. BowDiTCH. No, nothing will make so good butter as good 

 clover hay and corn meal. 



Question. What is your next best? 



Mr. BowDiTCH. Early cut grass, the more of a mixture the 

 better. 



