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he sent his butter used to be prejudiced against feeding 

 cotton-seed meal. At one time tlie butter maker got word 

 from the party in Boston who was buying his butter that he 

 must not feed any more cotton-seed meal, — that his butter 

 was not so good as it had been. That man had never fed 

 any, while I had been feeding it right along and send- 

 ing my butter to the same firm, and never had trouble. 

 I know a gentleman who is very much prejudiced against 

 ensilage, who buys his butter of one of his neighbors and 

 pays a high price for it. One day the son of the neighbor 

 was up to the gentleman's place, and he said to him : " Tell 

 me as soon as you commence feeding ensilage, and I won't 

 have any more of your butter." The young man said, "All 

 right." He went home and told his father what the gentle- 

 man had said, and his father told him not to tell him when 

 they commenced feeding ensilage. He opened his silo and 

 fed the ensilage to his cows, and the gentleman kept 

 on buying his butter. Some time afterwards this gentle- 

 man asked him when he was going to open his silo. 

 " Why," said he, "I have been feeding ensilage for three 

 or four weeks." The gentleman's wife spoke up and said, 

 <' Didn't I tell you the butter had been better than it was 

 before ? " 



Mr. Woodson. I have been in the habit of feeding differ- 

 ently for milk and butter. I have always supposed that I 

 must. It looked reasonable that Indian meal, cotton-seed 

 meal, etc., would make more butter in proportion to milk 

 than shorts and that kind of feed. I tried no experiments 

 to find out whether it was so or not until last spring. One 

 reason was, that in making butter we set the milk in large 

 and small pans, and churned two or three times a w^eek, and 

 churning so seldom we did not have a chance to experiment 

 so readily as we would otherwise. Now we are using 

 Cooley cans, and churning every morning and night ; and 

 when we got those I began to experiment to find out the 

 difference between feeding different kinds of meal, shorts, 

 cotton-seed meal, and so on. I found I got the same num- 

 ber of spaces of cream every time, — it did not make any 

 difference what meal I fed. The only time I have seen any 

 difference throughout the season was when I turned my cows 



