70 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



the speaker's position when he speaks of the comfort of the 

 animal. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I never have any difficulty in being 

 understood by physicians and women. 



Dr. Pierce. Last Saturday I was in the village of Mil- 

 lington, in this State, where I came across a very fine illus- 

 tration of what has been oiven us this mornino-. I met a 

 gentleman, a common farmer l)y appearance, and not quite 

 the average of the common farmer. I was listening to the 

 banter of a number of other farmers in regard to his taking 

 care of his cow, and especially one who sold him the cow. 

 She was a grade Jersey. When he purchased the cow she 

 made a pound of butter a day. That was all that the 

 seller had guaranteed the cow to do. They were laughing 

 at him because he Avas spending so much time on her ; but 

 the cow was making seventeen pounds of butter a week. I 

 listened to the banter a while, and I asked him what he 

 did. " Well," he said, " I will tell you about that. I read 

 ' Hoard's Dairyman,' and take pride in the care of the 



€0W." 



Mr. Kline (of Egremont). In connection with Mr. 

 Wheeler's question about rain affecting cows, decreasing 

 their product on account of a storm, this circumstance comes 

 to mind. There was a butter and cheese factory in this 

 county a few years ago, and the manager of it told me that 

 always in an east wind the product of the cow was quite a 

 per cent less than in a north wind, even if there was no 

 storm. This manager said he could always tell by the wind 

 what the product was going to be the following two or three 

 days. 



Secretary Sessions. That was in the quantity of milk? 



Mr. Kline. No, in the per cent of butter product from 

 the milk. He said it would be always less with an east wind 

 than with a north wind. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I have had no experience in that 

 line. I have made no observation distinctively. 



The Chairman. Apropos to that question, I will say that, 

 according to the report of the superintendent of the cream- 

 ery for two successive years, it took a larger number of 

 spaces to make a pound of butter in the month of Septem- 



