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best families in the city of Worcester with milk, and we have 

 never heard a word said against cabbages ; but the moment 

 we feed turnips we hear from it. I think confounding the 

 cabbage with the turnip is all wrong. I believe no taste of 

 cabbage will be discovered in the milk. 



Question. Is the quantity of cabbage limited, or do you 

 allow your cows to eat as much as they please? 



Mr. Wheeler. I should be willing to feed my cows four 

 times a day, and let them have all they would eat ; I am 

 confident I should never hear from it. I think that cabbages 

 make as good milk as Indian corn. That is my experience. 



Mr. Stone. We have a gentleman present who has the 

 reputation of being one of the best butter-makers in Norfolk 

 County, and who has had a large experience in all these mat- 

 ters. I should be happy to hear from him, and I have no 

 doubt others will be. I refer to Mr. Cheever. 



Mr. Cheever. About two weeks ago I was at Faneuil 

 Hall Market, in Boston, at Mr. Hovey's stall, with some 

 butter that I brought in there, as I do every week, and a 

 gentleman came in soliciting custom. He brought in a sample 

 of his butter to show Mr. Hovey. I was introduced to him, 

 and he asked me to taste of his butter. Said I, "Do you feed 

 any cabbage?" "Yes," he said, "I feed a great deal of it." 

 Said I, "I thought so." The only taste I found in his butter 

 was the taste of cabbage. 



Mr. Hyde. I should like to hear from Dr. Lorins:, who 

 has had a great deal of experience in feeding. 



Dr. Loring. Mr. Hyde has requested me to give my views 

 and experience upon root-culture and root-feeding, and I am 

 glad to do it, because for fifteen years that has constituted a 

 large part of my business as a farmer. I keep a large herd 

 of cows, as many of you know, and endeavor to make from 

 them the most milk I can, in an honest way. I have the 

 usual temptation of w r ells of water around me, but I desire 

 to resist that temptation, if I can, being entirely confident 

 that milk tainted a little with cabbages and turnips is prefer- 

 able to milk diluted with water. 



Now, in regard to the general business of root-culture, I 

 will say that it is not a thing that can be accepted by whole- 

 sale, by any manner of means. The assertion that a farmer 



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