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These I fill with milk and set in a wooden tank in cool water, 

 calculating to keep the milk as near sixty degrees as possible. 

 I think I can get as much cream, or more, in that way, espe- 

 ciall}^ in warm weather, than in any other. I do not know 

 that I can make any more butter, but it saves a large amount 

 of work, because you can put twenty-four quarts in a pail in- 

 stead of using so many pans. 



Mr. Hutchinson, of Milford. Is there any danger of milk 

 becoming tai^|ted from anything the cows eat or drink ? 



Prof. Stockbridge, of Amherst. I say, "Yes." I will 

 assume that the quality of butter, fixvorable or unfavorable, is 

 derived very largely from the food of the animal. There- 

 fore, June butter, when the cows feed upon the rich, nutri- 

 tious, luxuriant grasses of that time of the year, is extremely 

 rich and nutty in its flavor. Assuming that, I want to ask 

 this question, "Why w^e cannot, in the winter season, fill our 

 dairy-rooms with the agreeable, nutty odor which the cream 

 itself wnll take on, and thus give w^iuter butter the flavor, 

 odor and delicacy of summer butter? 



Mr. Lew^is. In answer to the last question, I say, "We 

 can." In answer to the first, I say, "Yes." I believe it is 

 possible, by the selection of the right kind of winter faod, 

 and by placing roses (which my friend. President White, is 

 very fond of) or anything sweeter, in the room where butter 

 is made, an odor is imparted to the cream. You cannot cook 

 cabbage or turnips in a room where milk is set ; it will cer- 

 tainly absorb the odors of the cooked cabbage or cooked 

 turnips. I have placed under the nose of a cow in the 

 stable, onions and garlic, and let them stand for an hour or 

 two, and then I have removed the cow from the influence of 

 that atmosphere for four hours, milked her, and found the 

 odor of garlic and onions in the milk. 



Question. How about feeding cows with turnips and 

 cabbages ? 



Mr. Lewis. I think if you feed turnips, you will get a 

 turnipy flavor. If you feed them after milking you will get 

 less than if you feed them indiscriminately. I think so ; but 

 some deny it ; it is an unsettled question. I wall say this, 

 how^ever, to those who sell milk to be consumed in our cities. 

 What I have said I have said for the benefit of individuals 



