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indulge in a little reasoning which will help on this matter. 

 All of you know that the stripper's butter is deficient in 

 flavor. You know that after gestation has set in — six 

 months, say — the process of gestation takes out of the 

 butter all flavor, and feeding cotton-seed meal in large quan- 

 tities produces fat to such an extent that it is almost the same 

 as strippers' butter. Now, that does not show that a man 

 should not use it with temperance and with judgment. A 

 small amount of cotton-seed meal is a help in the promotion 

 of this albuminoid property that I am speaking of, but it 

 should not be used as largely as some men use it. Then in 

 regard to this matter of flavor, I will guarantee that this 

 creamery you speak of will find the same difiiculty if they 

 should make butter from all strippers' milk. Supposing 

 ■every cow had been six months milked or eight months 

 milked, that creamery would find it impossible to make a 

 fine article of butter. It cannot be done. I never could do 

 it. What is the cause of that? There are two basic fats 

 in milk. The flavor in the butter is largely the result of 

 the butyrine and caprone, and gestation takes that entirely 

 out, and so in regard to feed. I do not think that cotton- 

 seed meal, handled rightly and moderately, will do butter 

 ^ny hurt. It does not hurt mine ; but I have insisted that 

 it should be used carefully. I have had no experience as to 

 gluten meal that leads me to believe it is any more harmful 

 than bran, but it is a very high protein food, and those pro- 

 tein foods can never be used as largely as a great many men 

 want to use them. You must use a larger bulk and balance 

 -that ration. Then another point on feeding. I have never 

 been able in my experience, with not more than one cow in 

 a hundred, to secure any profitable results with above eight 

 or ten pounds of a well-balanced ration. I had one instance 

 with a Jersey cow that would take fourteen pounds of corn 

 meal and six pounds of bran and return me a pretty fair 

 equivalent for it, and an examination of the excrement 

 showed it was digested. 



Mr. Pratt. Governor Hoard, can you give us the cor- 

 rect proportion of the feed ? 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I cannot do it. I cannot look at 

 your cows right here. From eight to ten pounds is about 



