154 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



health of the customers to whom I have sold milk. Recently 

 a village has sprung up on the beach near where I live. 

 These people have come to me for milk, because I can supply 

 it upon two or three or five minutes" notice, and furnish it 

 fresh. That has changed my habits of farming largely, both 

 in raising produce and in raising milk. Well, I found that 

 I was not getting as much milk as I wanted to get. So I 

 said to my foreman, " What shall we do? We cannot 

 afford to sell such a small quantity of milk from these Jer- 

 sey cows. We want to get more milk, and at the same time 

 we do not want to sell poor milk ; and, besides that, 

 there is a law that checks us in that respect." Well, my 

 foreman, who is a Cape Breton man, said, " Suppose we 

 try some gluten and oat meal?" He said, " Down on the 

 island of Cape Breton we use oat meal, and think it is one of 

 the very best feeds." I had been feeding a quart of Indian 

 meal and half a peck of bran to my cows ; that was their 

 regular ration. I then began to feed the gluten meal and 

 the ground oats, and all at once there was a wonderful 

 increase in the amount of the milk, but it began to grow 

 thin. Whether it was as healthy or not, I cannot say, but 

 there was a greater quantity. That was a lawful feed, you will 

 see ; there was nothing to be said against it in the way of 

 fraud or imposition on the public. I had two cows that 

 were fed on the meal and the bran that were showing signs 

 of garget, a thickening of the milk. What should I do? I 

 increased the ration of gluten meal and ground oats, and it 

 corrected that habit at once in those cows. But what is the 

 normal condition of a cow? I have hardly been able to 

 ascertain that, and I hardly know what " limitation " means 

 in that connection ; but I know that each individual cow, 

 like each individual human being, has a certain bias, and 

 that it should be studied and recorded. I know, too, that a 

 uniform practice or system cannot be adopted. That brings 

 us back to the individual, instead of to the mass. We want 

 to study the character of each individual cow, as we would 

 the character of each individual boy or girl. 



Mr. Bowkek. I want to keep this discussion, if I can, 

 upon a high level ; and we have here a man who is just as 

 full of meat as a nut, and we want to use him. I know this, 



