122 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



into fall feed for an hour in the morning. I found there 

 was quite a change in the quantity of cream in proportion 

 to the milk. 



Question. Increase, or decrease? 



Mr. Woodson. Increase of the cream. That was the 

 only instance where I could see that the feed made any dif- 

 ference ; and there I got some three spaces more of cream 

 on about eighteen quarts of milk than I did the day before I 

 turned them in. After I took them off of the fall feed they 

 gradually came back to the ordinary amount of cream. The 

 speaker said that probably nine-tenths or five-sixths of the 

 farmers would have said that it would be different, and six 

 months ago I should have voted on that side ; but I take 

 ground with the speaker to-day. I may change my mind 

 later, but I think he is a great deal nearer right than I 

 should have thought he was six months ago, before making 

 these experiments. As I say, by using these cans and 

 counting the spaces every morning, having the same cows 

 and having the cans full of milk, I can tell the proportion of 

 cream to milk ; and the result has been the same with me 

 as with him. Therefore, the more milk I can get the more 

 cream I get. There is one point, and only one, upon which 

 I should differ with the speaker; that is, in regard to water- 

 ing cows. I have been in the habit of watering twice a day. 

 Of course they do not drink as much when feeding u})on en- 

 silage, but my cows drink every morning and night. They 

 hardly ever miss drinking twice a day. 



Mr. ScRiBNER. I noticed that the speaker spoke of using 

 cider pomace. I would like to know if it is used by any 

 one enough to enable him to tell us whether it is practicable 

 to use it or not. In 1886 I had three Jersey cows that had 

 been fed upon ensilage and good meadow hay, and watered 

 twice a day. I took away one-half of the ensilage, and fed 

 cider pomace. They gained steadily, and gave more milk 

 right along;. 



Professor Cooke. That would come under the same head 

 with what has been said before, on the question whether the 

 feed of cattle changes the character of the milk. I am 

 considered rather a heretic in the views I entertain on that 

 subject ; but having put in, as we did for experimental pur- 



