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purposes, when one dairy may be for producing milk, and 

 another for producing butter. My idea is this, that milk con- 

 sumers are not so difficult to please as butter consumers. Our 

 chairman of yesterday, Dr. Loring, spoke of Indian meal, and 

 any meal, which contains oil, as bad for dairy stock, and recom- 

 mended feeding with wheat and rye bran, etc. My experience 

 tells me that these are very good ; and I dwell upon this particu- 

 larly, because his object is to produce milk, while mine is to 

 make butter. My experience teaches me, that these kinds of 

 food will tend to produce a large quantity of milk, but will not 

 make a great deal of butter. If the farmers of the Connecticut 

 River wished to produce butter, white as the driven snow, they 

 would feed broom corn-seed and corn-stalks. It would take 

 twenty-four hours to bring the butter, but it would be white, as 

 I say, as the driven snow. If they wished to produce butter 

 which should be hard and yellow, they would give a mixture of 

 Indian corn-meal. I never have seen any ill-effects from feeding 

 Indian corn-meal, given to dairy cows in small quantities, and 

 my experience tells me that it will make better butter ; and it 

 is admitted by all, I suppose, tliat it will make more flesh. 



Now, in regard to cotton-seed meal. The assertion was made 

 quite broadly that it was injurious to cattle, kept for dairy 

 purposes. I have fed tons of it with satisfactory results. I 

 have fed it the past summer to my dairy cows, and I am still 

 feeding it with satisfaction ; and I shall continue to feed it imtil 

 I see that it produces ill effects. 



A Member. How long have you used it ? 



Mr. Smith. Several years continuously. I remarked this 

 morning, privately, that I liad fed one cow — the best I have — 

 year after year with cotton-seed meal, and she does as well as 

 ever. 



Dr. Loring. How much do you give ? 



Mr. Smith. Three or four quarts a day, perhaps, mixed with 

 lighter feed. I am now feeding my dairy cows three quarts 

 each, once a day, half cotton-seed meal and half cob meal, and 

 once a day half a bushel of carrots each. I have one cow, 

 which I am not ^intending for dairy purposes, to which I have 

 given a very much larger quantity of cotton-seed meal. It is a 

 cow that I intend to make beef of before the year comes round. 

 I have fed it to all kinds of cattle — fatting sheep, fatting cattle, 



