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Fig. 36. — Jersey. 



Miss Jersey and Miss Guernsey both spoke at once, and stated most 

 positively that milk rich in fat could be most profitably turned mto butter. 

 Such milk made butter with the g-olden color, and the firm texture in hot 

 weather. They also said that it did not cost the owner so much for the 



feed to make a pound of butter, 

 and pointed to "official tests" 

 to prove their statements. 



At this point the other cows 

 began chewing- their cuds so 

 vigorously that it was thought 

 advisable to adjourn the meeting. 

 No. 2. At the next meeting, 

 it was resolved to discuss "feed- 

 ing for butter," and the only 

 speaker on this occassion was 

 Old Mrs. Lineback, who hid 

 man}- years of experience 

 " browsing" and running around 

 straw-stacks in winter, and eat- 

 ing in fence corners and along dusty road-sides in summer. She had 

 also tried these new-fangled feeds, called silage, gluten meal, cotton- 

 seed meal, and the like, but her experience was that there was nothing 

 equal to good, sweet June grass for making buttei. When the grass is 

 short and somewhat dry, she advised feeding green peas and oats, or a 

 small quantity of sweet silage, together with bran and oats. In winter, 

 clover hay, sweet silage, mangels, bran, oats, and peas make excellent 

 foods for producing butter. She would also emphasize the importance of 

 plenty of pure water and salt as aids to digestion, and necessary for .n. 

 good flow of milk. 



With these statements, all agieed, and there was no further dis- 

 cussion. 



No. 3. — The third meeting 

 was a sort of "indignation meet- 

 ing." The chief speakers on this 

 occasion were Miss Jersey and 

 Miss Guernsey. The}' both pro- 

 tested against being awakened 

 from a pleasant nap at half-past 

 four on a winter morning. So 

 far as they were concerned, they 

 did not see any reason for their 

 owner waking his wife and chil- 

 dren from a sound sleep at that 

 hour, then tramping to the stable 

 with a lantern, whose bright 

 light hurt their eyes very much, and tJiey iveie sure it 7vas spoiling iJ.eir 

 beauty. They would much prefer having their owner not a\\aken them 

 betore daylight, as they did not believe it wise to be eating in the d^rk 

 when they could not see what was going into their mouths. 1 he quantity 



Fig. 37. — Guernsey. 



