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cows run where there is a large abundance of fresh feed that 

 the flow increased, but the quality was not near as good for 

 making butter. The milk was richer, and I could make more 

 butter, from milk obtained from a small amount of good feed, 

 than I could from a large amount of feed of poorer quality. It 

 is so in winter as well as summer : when we give a poorer quality 

 of feed, and work in straw and meadow hay, the milk and butter 

 are poorer in proportion. 



Mr. Allis. Mr. Ellsworth stated in his report that for a 

 few days after a cow had calved he prevented the calf from 

 bunting the udder from fear of injury to the cow, and then 

 after that he allowed it to bunt as much as it chose. It has 

 appeared to me in my experience that if a calf bunts the udder 

 it injures the cow even when you are fattening the calf. In 

 speaking of milk, there have been experiments in our dairy, and 

 we have made sixty ounces of butter from twenty quarts of milk 

 from an Ayrshire cow. The experiment has been tried 

 repeatedly, and all the feed the cow had was what hay she 

 wanted and two quarts of meal. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I think I stated that if the calves were al- 

 lowed to bunt the udder while there was any inflammation, it 

 would be very apt to injure the cow ; but if the bag was per- 

 fectly free from any inflammation, I have never found any trou- 

 ble whatever. 



Mr. Allis. I should like to ask Mr. Ellsworth if he has any 

 difficulty in getting a cow with calf from one season to another. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I have had a good deal of difficulty in that 

 way. 



Mr. Allis. Can you tell us of any kind of feed that will oper- 

 ate beneficially in that respect ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I do not know as I should be justified in 

 saying that any kind of feed will operate towards getting a 

 cow with calf. My observation is, if a bull serves a cow in the 

 earliest part of the heat, it will be more likely to be effectual. 

 I have observed this more frequently where a bull runs with a 

 herd of cows. Nature teaches them the right time. My ob- 

 servation has been that the cow receives the bull in the earliest 

 part of the heat, and it is very seldom that she receives him 

 more than once or twice. 



Mr. Allis. There has been great complaint in our locality, 



