52 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



my farm. As they are my grandchildren, I take a great 

 deal of interest in them, and I have been much interested in 

 the statement that has been made here of the way that mills 

 is distributed. 



Mr. Weld. I would like to add one word. I tell my 

 friends in the city that I drink better milk in New York 

 than I can drink at home, on my farm, and it is true. The 

 milk is cooled just as soon as it comes from the cow, down 

 to sixty, or below, by the fjirmer. Then we cool it down to 

 forty, and it will stay at about that temperature, covered 

 with ice : that is its condition when I drink it in New York. 

 I do not get such milk at home. We cannot keep our milk 

 so well. We could do it, with the same care, but we do not 

 do it, and no other farmer does. So that milk handled in 

 that M'ay is really better than the milk that a farmer's family 

 gets, to say nothing of blowing the cream olF of the top. 



The Chairman. I see before me the manufacturer of the 

 standard butter of the Boston market, Mr. E. F. Bowditch. 

 Will he give his experience in feeding for butter and in the 

 manufacture of butter ? 



Mr. Bowditch. Mr. Chairman, if I say anything, I must 

 depart from the question under discussion, which is milk, 

 for I am not a milk producer. My plan of feeding cows for 

 butter is to give them the best of hay, corn meal and carrots, 

 with a few beets in winter, and in summer the same feed of 

 grain, with good pasturage or green cut stuff. I have tried 

 sometimes, having had a few cows that I wanted to feed a 

 little differently, feeding shorts or linseed meal, but the par- 

 ties who have sold my butter for the last ten years will tell 

 me almost immediately that I had better not try to feed my 

 cows differently ; that I am giving them something that 

 makes a change. I have never been able to feed musty hay, 

 or well-cured corn-stalks, which I believe in most thoroughly 

 for feeding common stock. I cannot feed shorts. I cannot 

 feed cotton seed. I must feed as I have stated to secure the 

 best result. I can feed six, possibly seven quarts of beets, 

 if I feed the same amount of carrots also, but I cannot feed 

 that quantity of beets alone. That, in brief, is my experi- 

 ence. 



Question. I did not quite understand what quantity of 

 sugar beets Mr. Bowditch thought a person could feed. 



