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that it will cut just right and not be greasy. I want it so that 

 it shall not only be perfectly sweet, but so that is impossible to 

 detect any foreign flavor in it. And I want it to possess a pe- 

 culiar sweetness, that I can hardly describe. You can better 

 understand it after you have gone into a flower garden and in- 

 haled the fragrance of that. There is something that is inde- 

 scribable, but you want to have that in butter. For summer 

 butter, you want but little salt ; for winter butter you want more. 

 A great deal of butter is ruined by salt. Farmers think they 

 make a little money on the salt they put in, for which they fancy 

 they get a high price. The fallacy of that is shown in the fact, 

 that when that butter is sent to market, they have to take off 

 from three to five cents a pound, in consequence of this salt. 

 That should be guarded against. 



Now, what we want is, cattle that will make that kind of 

 butter, if we have not got them. If they are not to be found in 

 the Jerseys, where are they to be found ? Are they to be found 

 in the Ayrshires ? 



Dr. Loring. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Goodman. To a small extent. 



Mr. Ellsworth. Grades. 



Mr. Hyde. I have not found these qualities in Shorthorns. 

 I should not advise any man to go into Shorthorns as butter 

 producers. Take the largest-sized and best-formed Jerseys 

 you can find, and I don't believe there is a stock of cattle known 

 to us that will give us butter of such uniformly good quality, or 

 so much to a quart of milk. Gentlemen talk about twelve or 

 fifteen quarts of milk to a pound of butter. I believe that with 

 Jersey cattle you will not require over nine quarts to the pound, 

 and you may follow it right through the season. I believe Mr. 

 Converse gave mo figures far below that, something like six 

 and three-quarters or seven quarts to a pound of butter. 



Now, such animals can be produced. It costs no more to 

 feed them than others. Mr. Ellsworth feeds his cattle in the 

 right way. Take care of them ; make a business of it. Do not 

 do it in the shilly-shally way that thousands of farmers do ; but 

 do it thoroughly, systematically, as if you meant to make a 

 business of it. What I want is, to call the attention of the 

 farmers of Massachusetts to the important point of producing 



