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giving milk, that in the month of October there is usually a 

 very great falling off in the milk, and quite a change in 

 temperature from day to day, and the leaf of the mangold 

 seems to pave the way for the cabbage which we feed after- 

 wards. 



Question. I would like to ask how you feed cabbage, at 

 what time, and whether it affects the milk? 



Mr. Hadwen. Cabbage and turnips, and everything of 

 that nature, having flavor, should be fed immediately after 

 milking. You will then experience no flavor in the milk. 



Question. I would like to ask Mr. Arnold's view upon 

 the subject of feeding cabbage and turnips to cattle? 



Mr. Arnold. I believe it is the general experience, as it 

 is mine, that you cannot get rid of the odor or flavor of 

 turnips, no matter what time you feed them, but a great deal 

 more of the odor is got rid of by feeding, as Mr. Hadwen has 

 recommended, immediately after milking. It makes quite a 

 material difference. The odor is quite volatile, and escapes 

 long before the food circulates much in the system ; but 

 neither the turnip nor the cabbage can be entirely got rid of. 



Question. Does scalding the milk help it? 



Mr. Arnold. Scalding the milk will remove the re- 

 mainder. 



Col. Stone. The question was, whether the expense of 

 collecting the leaves and feeding them out was not greater 

 than the value of the material if left on the land. 



Mr. Dillon, of Amherst. I would not contest anything 

 stated yesterday by Mr. Arnold ; but we are here to state our 

 experience, and I wish to say that my experience confirms 

 Mr. Hadwen's rather than Mr. Arnold's. Last year, we 

 raised quite a large quantity of ruta-bagas, and as soon as they 

 began to go to the barn, my wife began to taste the flavor of 

 turnip in the milk ; but that was a good fortnight before we 

 began to feed them, and after we did feed them, she never 

 found any fault, nor did any one else. Our butter sold for 

 the very highest market price all through the winter, when 

 the cows were fed with ruta-baga. I never could detect the 

 slightest taint, and I never could find any one else who could. 



Mr. . That has been my experience. I have, for 



a long course of years, fed ruta-bagas for milk, and I have 



