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Mr. Anderson. That docs not answer my question. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. As near as I can answer it, yon 

 arc in greater danger of various disturbances to the milking 

 function. Yon are in danger of milk fever, if your cow is 

 in high condition. I don't want to see mv cow in high con- 

 dition. I don't aim to have flesh, hut to have her thrift v 

 and all right. Yon ask me where the fat goes to. T don't 

 know. Do you? 



Mr. Anderson. I suppose it works off in the milk. Ex- 

 perience of fifty years teaches me that may be the case. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I don't know where it goes. I 

 reason inferentiallv, as you do, that the flesh of the body is 

 in some way changed over, but I do know that butter fat is 

 not animal fat. Butter fat is not pure fat. Butter fat is al- 

 together different fat, both chemically and physiologically. 

 That is a most mysterious proposition. How can one be 

 changed over to the other? 



Mr. Axderson. Well, I want to ask }'ou if you suppose 

 it is possible to have the beef and the milk points in one 

 animal profitably? 



Ex-Governor Hoard. Not to the best profit. 



Mr. Anderson. I want to relate a little something that 

 happened a few years ago. At the suggestion of a gentle- 

 man from Middlefield, I went over there and purchased a 

 Short-horn animal that came from Samuel Thorn of Schenec- 

 tady, N. Y. We bred cows from the animal, and we had 10 

 cows that through one winter, for four months, gave 80 

 pounds of butter a week. Those cows we fattened for the 

 market, and they dressed at 1,200 pounds apiece. Those 

 cows went to market and brought us $320. One cow we 

 raised from that animal one of my neighbors had, and from 

 that cow, in one season, besides using the milk and cream 

 in a family of five, he made a little over 500 pounds of 

 butter. Now, gentlemen, there was a dual-purpose cow. 



There was a cow that produced not only beef, but 

 milk ; and I think we can have and have had, and have 

 to-day and shall have in the future, a dual-purpose cow 

 in the Short-horn. We have to-da}^ in our barn cows that 

 will make 1,200 pounds of beef, and that are giving 20 to 

 24 quarts of milk a day, and the calves sell without any 



