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ber than it did in any other month ; that is, it took nearly 

 or quite seven spaces to make a pound of butter, wliereas 

 the average of other months was a little over six. I be- 

 lieve I make the statement correctly. I want to ask why 

 that was so in that particular month ? 



Mr. Kline. My idea is the cattle were eating too much 

 frozen grass. 



The Chairman. We have another superintendent of a 

 creamery just over the line in the Nutmeg State, who per- 

 haps can tell us something about this subject, Mr. Gold. 



Mr. T. S. Gold (secretary of Connecticut Board of Agri- 

 culture). I will merely suggest that Governor Hoard's 

 position in Wisconsin does not enable him to understand 

 what an east wind in New England is, and what it means to 

 everybody, and it means the same for the cow. It is a wind 

 that generally produces disturbance of all our mental and 

 physical qualities. It makes us uncomfortable. Here it is 

 the uncomfortable wind of New England, and it follows right 

 in the line here that a cow should shrink in her milk, as 

 Governor Hoard has said, whenever she is made uncomfort- 

 able. Why should not the east wind make her uncomfortable, 

 just as it does humanity ? 



Mr. HoETON. We had occasion in the last six months to 

 make investigations concerning a fly which troubled the 

 farmers of Massachusetts. Mr. Geors-e L. Clemence has 

 had some experience which seemed to me to do away with 

 the fly at very small expense, and for the benefit of the 

 farmers present, with your permission, I would like to have 

 him give you a sketch of it. 



Mr. George L. Clemence (of Southbridge). In the 

 fore part of August my herd had been very much troubled, 

 not only with the common fly, but with this new pest 

 called the horn fly. About this time a friend of mine 

 sent me a device to try on my cows, an instrument for 

 spraying cows with kerosene oil. He said it kept the fly 

 from his herd, and advised me to try it. I did so, and with 

 the very best results. The device is a simple spraying in- 

 strument, and I found with about half a pint of kerosene 

 oil, costing less than a cent, that I could spray twenty-five 

 cows inside of five minutes, killing the fly, and the cows. 



