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cabbage contains more nutrition than almost any other vege- 

 table, and it must increase the milk produced, by animals. 



Dr. Wakefield. It seems to me that Mr. Hadwen 

 knows as much about this cabbage business as any of the 

 doctors. He has stated what I believe to be the fact ; and 

 I believe it, in the first place, because he says so ; and, in the 

 second place, because I know it is so, having tried it. Those 

 are two of the very best reasons I can give. 



I have fed cabbage; I have fed turnips; I am feeding 

 turnips now. I believe that he is correct in saying that the 

 time to feed them is immediately after milking. I believe 

 he is correct, also, in saying that you must take every scrap 

 from the manger immediately, and not let them have it for 

 luncheon even. If they get any of it, the taste will appear 

 in the milk. Cabbage is nat so bad as turnips, and it may 

 not be more likely to impart a taste to milk than carrots or 

 beets ; but there are some people so nice in their taste that 

 they can detect either or any of them. Mr. Bowditch has 

 told us that the man who takes his butter can tell if he feeds 

 a little of a different kind of meal from that he has been in 

 the habit of feeding. My taste is not so delicate as that : 

 but I have tasted considerable butter, and have tried to 

 cultivate my taste, make it keen ; and I have found out that 

 if I feed my cows with turnips, or cabbage, or any of the 

 roots, at any and all times, the flavor of the vegetable will 

 be imparted to the milk. That I know to be a fact. I 

 cannot explain it. I do not know why it should be so. The 

 doctor says there is not so much milk secreted just after 

 milking; but the milk is continually being secreted, and 

 beinsc held in the udder from the time it is drawn at one 

 milking until it is drawn at the other. It is true there is 

 not so much collected. We do not get twenty quarts from 

 each one of our cows. I don't suppose Mr. Bowditch would 

 get twenty quarts at noon ; but, if he waits twelve hours, he 

 will get eight or ten quarts. There is more likelihood, 

 perhaps, of the flavor being communicated if there is a large 

 (juantity in the udder than if there is a small quantity : but 

 the fact is, that, if you feed these things at the right time, 

 you do not suffer ; if you feed them at the wrong time, you 

 do suffer. 



Mr. Pierce (of Lincoln). As far as my experience goes, 



