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dairies that were feeding cotton-seed meal. It was claimed' 

 by some who were not feeding it that we were injuring our 

 product, but our best judges have decided that the dairies 

 that were using cotton-seed meal produced the best results. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I think they produce the largest 

 result in fat. 



Mr. Harwood (of North Brookfield). The gentleman in 

 front of me asked a question, and Governor Hoard has 

 answered it ; but perhaps a little explanation further from 

 me will be allowed. The gentleman is, if I understand it 

 rightly, a patron of a co-operative creamery, and the Gov- 

 ernor is the proprietor of a creamery. Well, these are two 

 very diflerent institutions. It has been found necessar^r 

 with all the co-operative institutions in the creamery line to 

 establish a certain set of rules and regulations to govern all 

 their patrons alike. Some patrons might be disposed to do 

 the fair thing, but they all do not look at it in the same 

 light ; consequently it is necessary to draw up a set of rules 

 and have them rather strict in order that all shall do the 

 same thing. Our experience where the patrons fed cotton- 

 seed meal was this : if we allowed it to be fed at all, it would 

 be fed by some patrons in very large quantities, and those 

 to whom we shipped the butter for sale told us that it not 

 only hardened the butter, but it gave it an oily look upon^ 

 the top of the tub, and therefore reduced the price. I have 

 answered the question in that way because it is a little dif- 

 ferent, and under different circumstances from that which the 

 Governor had stated. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. You did not find that cotton-seed 

 meal had any efiect to soften the butter ? 



Mr. Harwood. No, sir ; and I found also that if we 

 could trust our patrons to feed as we would be willing to 

 have them, a small quantity of cotton-seed meal was not 

 objectionable at all ; but the fact that some would feed it to 

 excess, and thereby injure the whole, obliged us to draw 

 the line somewhere, and in drawing it somewhere we were 

 obliged to tighten it perhaps a little tighter than was really 

 necessary. 



Mr. . I would like to ask the Governor if he has- 



ever had any experience in feeding corn meal. The farmers 



