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is sufficiently keen to tell what his cuttle are eating, if he did 

 not know it? 



Mr. BowDiTCH. I generally know it before my people 

 tell me. 



Question. I would like to ask ]Mr. Cheevor how he 

 separates the cream from his milk ? 



Mr. Cheever. Perhaps you will call me "an old 

 fogy," but I set my milk in the old-fashioned open pans, 

 except in hot weather, when I use the Ferguson Bureau. 



Now that I am up, I want to say that a butter consumer 

 acquires a taste of his own, and it is perfectly natural that 

 Mr. Bowditch should agree in his taste with his hundred cus- 

 tomers, more or less. They have had a very uniform kind of 

 butter for years ; he follows a very muform system of 

 making it, and they have all become accustomed to the looks 

 and the taste of that good Bowditch butter. But ]Mr. 

 Beecher says the best tisherman is the one who catches the 

 most fish, without regard to the cost of his tackle, whether 

 it be a sapling with a hook on the end of a string, or expen- 

 sive paraphernalia from the city. If 3'ou can build up a 

 trade and get good prices for butter made from cotton-seed 

 meal, or cheap hay, or corn-stalks, green or cured, it is a 

 legitimate thing for you to do ; indeed, if you can make good 

 butter out of cheaper food, it seems to me you are really 

 ahead of the man who must use the most expensive foods, 

 especially if the price obtained is the same in both cases. 



Before I sit down, let me say that I consider Mr. Bow- 

 ditch the champion butter maker of America. He is ahead 

 of the Philadelphia dairymen in my judgment. He has suc- 

 ceeded in securing a larger number of customers who are 

 willing constantly to pay fancy prices for their butter than 

 any man I know of in this country. 



The Chairmax. I would like to ask Mr. Bowditch, Mr. 

 Cheever, or Dr. Wakefield, one question, and that is in 

 regard to the feeding of cotton seed and shorts — if the 

 efiect of such feeding will not vary with the breed. 



Mr. Bowditch. I don't think I could answer that ques- 

 tion. We all know that in keeping a certain num})er of cat- 

 tle we have always a great variation in individual animals, 

 but I should suppose that the result of any particular feed 



