54 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



heads, such as you would eat yourselves, fed at the proper 

 time, impart no flavor to the milk that any mau or woman 

 can detect. I am not going to say that cabbage may not, 

 under some conditions, flavor butter ; but I say that it will 

 not flavor milk so that it can be detected. 



The time to feed cabbage is immediately after milking ; 

 and every leaf that is not consumed at the time of feeding 

 must be swept out of the waj^ and they must not be allowed 

 a leaf between meals. People who feed it in this way will 

 find no inconvenience whatever fi"om the cabbage-flavor in 

 the milk. 



Now, in connection with cabbage and good ha}^ — good 

 hay is the best food, — I feed meal made of ground oats. I 

 do not want to feed any shorts whatever. Shorts will in- 

 crease the quantity of milk; but I do not make milk for 

 quantity, I make it for quality. Quality is what I have to 

 come up to every time, and that is my process of feeding 

 between hay and grass. 



After my cabbages are gone, then I come on to my best 

 hay ; I feed also meal and carrots. There is no root that will 

 make milk of such consistency, flavor, and color, as will the 

 carrot. For one who is making butter, or one who is making 

 milk for market, and must make the best • quality, I regard 

 the carrot as indispensable. It is the cheapest root you can 

 grow for cattle. I formerly fed the mangolds ; then I mixed 

 mangolds and carrots together, and fed them ; and now I feed 

 carrots alone. You must be very careful that your stock of 

 carrots lasts until your cows go to grass ; for, just as sure as 

 you cease feeding them before that time, your customers will 

 ask you what is the matter with your milk. 



These things have grown out of a long practical experi- 

 ence ; and of course a milkman who has supplied the same 

 customers for more than a quarter of a century finds out the 

 little weak points that he has to contend with, and prepares 

 himself accordingly. 



Mr. A. W. Cheevee, (of Sheldon ville). I would like to 

 ask Dr. Bowen a question. Mr. Hadwen states that in feed- 

 ing cabbage, the best green feed of any after grass, it must be 

 fed after milking, and then every leaf swept away where the 

 cows will not get at it again before another regular feed. 

 We were told by the essayist. Dr. Bowen, that the food 



