No. 4.] MODERN DAIRYING. 115 



happen so. These were from patrons who had commenced 

 to send their cream only this last month. He told me that 

 in the case of the 14 per cent the gentleman did not care 

 anything about whether he sold cream or skim-milk. Said 

 he was disinterested, and did not care particularly about 

 encouraging the cream business, and that he had been told 

 all along that he would be disappointed if he expected to 

 get any great returns from the bulk he was sending in. 

 The other man, he said, is setting his cream in a shallow 

 vessel of some sort by open setting. I felt better immedi- 

 ately ; I felt that I was doing neither an injustice. 



Mr. W. M. Tucker (of Monson). At what temperature 

 would you keep a stable during the winter? What effect 

 has sunlight on the milk? 



Ex-Governor Hoard. On the question of temperature, I 

 would arrange to have it somewhere about fifty degrees. 

 That is a fair average of temperature for the keeping of 

 cows in a stable, but I would be more anxious as to the 

 character of the air than as to its temperature. Foul air 

 is as frequently found in cold temperature as in hot. As a 

 rule, the better air is at the top. As to the effect of sun- 

 light, it is of immense importance to our cows. Not only 

 does it affect the color of the butter, the color of the milk, 

 but it is one of the most important sanitary agents connected 

 with, our stable life, and I do not understand why it docs 

 take so much talk to get the ordinary farmer to put a few 

 windows in his cow stable. You will see hundreds and 

 thousands of underground stables, with a little window here 

 and there. A man with ordinary eyesight cannot see to 

 read large type in the stables, and the cows are kept there 

 all winter long. Any man's stable ought to have as pmch 

 sunlight as his house. It is cheap. He could make a 

 double window to guard against cold. You must warm the 

 stables with the heat of the cows' bodies. If you want to 

 fatten veal for the market and make a white veal, you must 

 put the calf in the dark and keep him in the dark. If you 

 want your cow to give white butter and white milk, you 

 must keep her in the dark; and if you want her to give 

 yellow butter and yellow milk, she must have the sunlight. 



