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never had any body complain, who has eaten butter at my 

 house, that there was any turnip in it. 



Mr. Hyde. I think I will venture to say, that no man can 

 make butter from the milk of cows fed with cabbage or turnip, 

 no matter how small the quantity, that I cannot detect it. I 

 keep Jersey cows, — not a herd, it is true, I am not rich 

 enough for that, — and I have fed them everything with the 

 greatest care, feeding them only after milking, for that is the 

 orthodox way ; but I could never feed them without detecting 

 the flavor. I do not believe it is possible for any man to feed 

 them so that I shall not detect it. I do not feed turnip-tops 

 for that reason. I taste the turnip in the milk, and if we 

 make butter, I taste it in the butter. I can detect it the very 

 next milking after the cabbage or turnips are fed. 



Question. Has the gentleman ever tasted Mr. Arnold's 

 butter that has been made after scalding the milk ? 



Mr. Hyde. I have not. 



Mr. Dillon. I would say that very great care must be 

 exercised to prevent cows from getting turnips between meals. 

 If great care is not taken they will occasionally get a little 

 piece, and a very little piece is enough to flavor the milk. If 

 you cover the turnips with hay a cow may very easily miss a 

 piece in the morning, and she may get it about three o'clock 

 in the afternoon, and then you will have the turnip taste. I 

 have tried the experiment of feeding turnips, and with the 

 greatest effort of which I was capable I could not detect any 

 flavor in the milk, and the products of the milk were sub- 

 mitted to several persons of very critical taste, and they said 

 that they could not detect any flavor. 



Mr. . I have had a little experience in selling milk 



for some years past. I have sometimes fed a very few 

 cabbage-leaves and turnips immediately after milking, never 

 telling my customers ; but I have never fed them two or three 

 days in succession without their finding fault with the taste 

 of the milk. 



Mr. "Wheeler. I did not intend to say a single word 

 on this subject, but cabbages and turnips have been put 

 together as equally objectionable. Now, there are several 

 milkmen here from Worcester, and we raise a great many 

 cabbages and feed them constantly. We supply some of the 



