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good he would have detected it. I have no doubt if they were 

 fed half an hour before milking the milk and butter would taste 

 of them. 



Mr. Fearing. In regard to the amount of milk required for 

 a pound of butter, — twelve quarts I think the report stated ; 

 down in our part of the country we find that nine quarts on the 

 average will make a pound of butter ; that is, milk from Jersey 

 cows. 



Mr. Ellsworth. As I stated yesterday, it is very important, 

 if you have anything to report, to report it as it is. I reported 

 it as I found it. I gave the stock it came from and the butter 

 that was produced, under all circumstances, and at all times of 

 the year. Now you will notice that this was given in July and 

 in August, but the reports that we get in the newspapers as to 

 how much milk it takes to make a pound of butter are not all 

 satisfactory to me ; they are given mostly in the butter-making 

 months, not in August, or in each month through the year. I 

 have no doubt myself but that the Jersey cow is preferable to 

 make butter from ; but as to the quality of the butter made from 

 the Jerseys being better than that made from other breeds I 

 have my doubts. I should like to hear from Mr. Flint on that 

 point. His is as good authority as we have in this country on 

 dairy cows and milk and butter, and what it should take 

 through the season to make a pound of butter. 



Mr. Fearing. I milked last season ten cows, mostly pure 

 blood, some grades, and we found that on the average nine 

 quarts of milk would make a pound of butter. I should like to 

 ask if different kinds of feed would not make a difference. For 

 instance, we have in our town what we call low ground, not 

 exactly meadow, and we find that the milk of the cows feeding 

 there is quite inferior to the milk of the cows that feed upon our 

 high land. It has made a very decided impression, so much so 

 that two or three farms there have the reputation of having poor 

 milk. Even if the cows are Jerseys they find it changes the 

 milk. I would ask if these gentlemen have had any experience 

 in that way. This grass is English grass, not what we call 

 meadow grass, but it grows on low land where the fog lies in 

 the morning. 



Mr. Ellsworth. That is my experience, and it has been 

 considerable on that point. I have found invariably when my 



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