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produced by shallow setting. No man could convince Mrs. 

 Had wen, who has taken the cream from Jersey milk for 

 twenty years, that anything but shallow setting will give the 

 best results. To make cream that is worth sixty cents a 

 quart, the very best conditions are required, and among those,, 

 it is necessary that the milk should come in contact Avith 

 nothing but pure air. I also fully concur with what the gen- 

 tleman said in relation to the necessity of avoiding every- 

 thing objectionable in the stable. If I understand the 

 o-entleman, he would not clean out the stables until after 

 milking. I have made a mistake, perhaps, in that regard. 

 I see the force of the argument, because my instructions are 

 to clean the stable first, then the cows' udders are wiped 

 carefully with a cloth, and then we milk. But I can conceive, 

 although I never thought of it before, that in cleaning the 

 stal)le you liberate the gases of the excrement, they go into 

 the air and impregnate the milk, and consequently I have 

 been instructed by that part of the address. 



Mr. TiNKHAM of Vermont. Not long since I read a state- 

 ment made by a gentleman who is called a great dairy 

 authority, that the butter in these extraordinary yields, up 

 to four hundred or five hundred pounds per year per cow, 

 deteriorated in quality ; that it had a sort of margarine qual- 

 ity, more like oleomargarine, and even worse ; that it was 

 lacking in flavor, and partook more of the nature of tallow 

 than of butter. The statement was made by Mr. L. B. 

 Arnold, at least it was attributed to him, that an extra qual- 

 ity of butter could not be made where the amounts named 

 were yielded by the cow. I would like to know if Mr. 

 Goodman has had any experience in that direction. 



Mr. Goodman. I agree with Mr. Arnold. I look upon 

 these excessive yields simply as indications of the character- 

 istics of the Jerseys ; what they can do under special circum- 

 stances. The fact that the excessive feed given to produce 

 this very great yield injures the quality of the butter, — 

 seems to me to run exactly parallel with what is admitted, 

 that the flesh of show Short-horns, such as take the prizes at 

 Chicago, is by no means as good as the flesh of Short-horns 

 made on moderate rations. These large yields are simply 

 indications of what the breed can do. 



