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been first-class. This butter has not been made from poor 

 feed: it has been made from good feed. That Swiss cow 

 weighed, the last time she was put on the scales, thirteen 

 hundred and ten pounds. Through these two winters' ex- 

 periments, she made scarcely any flesh. During the two 

 months that she made such an amount of butter she lost 

 flesh, both in 1877 and 1878. Later in the season, she laid 

 on meat. 



Question. In your experience, does it make any differ- 

 ence in breeding for a perfect cow, or for a stock of dairy 

 cows for the production of milk, whether the stable is a light, 

 or a dark one, above ground, or in a cellar ? 



Mr. Robeets. I should not suppose it would make any 

 difference in breeding for milk, whether the stable be light 

 or dark, whether it be above ground or below ; but I like a 

 light stable. 



Professor Stockbbidge. The gentlemen who have de- 

 scribed here the type of a milch cow claim that, of what- 

 ever breed she may be, she is fine of head and shoulder, and 

 fine of bone throughout, and the finer, the thinner, the 

 lighter bone an individual cow of any breed has, the better 

 she will be as a milker. That seems to be the description. 

 Now, the characteristics of the Swiss cattle are these : Heavy 

 head, large horns, heavy of shoulders, coarse bones, and, when 

 slaughtered, a large amount of offal. That is the character 

 of Swiss cattle. Now, I want to ask Mr. Roberts this ques- 

 tion, because he is evidently familiar with them as a breed : 

 Is this cow of his, that has made six hundred pounds of 

 butter in a year, a coarse specimen of the Swiss breed, or is 

 she remarkably fine, small-boned, small-headed, thin-shoul- 

 dered as a Swiss ? 



Mr. Robeets. I should say she was not of the coarsest, 

 but inclined to the fine. She is close-built, not remarkably 

 heavy in the shoulders ; still she is a heavy cow. 



Question. I wish to ask Mr. Roberts what his experience 

 has been in feeding cob-meal, if he has had any. 



Mr. Robeets. I have had a great deal of experience in 

 feeding cob-meal. I think corn-meal is better for most of 

 our stock with the cob ground with the corn, provided the 

 corn is well ripened and the cob well seasoned. I think we 

 can all afford to grind the cob. 



