188 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



" For summer and winter are one to me, 



And the day is bright, be it storm or shine ; 

 For far away, o'er a sunny sea. 



Sails a treasure-vessel, and all is mine. 

 I see the ripples that fall away, 



As she cleaves the azure waves before ; 

 And nearer, nearer, day by day. 



Draws the happy hour when she comes to shore. 



" ' But what if she never comes ? ' yovi say, 



' If you never the honor, the treasure, gain ? ' 

 It has made me happier day by day, 



It has eased full many an aching pain, 

 It has kejjt the spirit from envy free, 



Has dulled the ear to the world's rude din. 

 Oh ! best of blessings it's been to me. 

 To look for the hour when my ship comes in." 



Mr. . I would like to ask Mr. Lyman what he gets 



as an average price of butter through the year. 



Mr. Lyman. Thirty-five to thirty-seven cents. 



Mr. Ware. I understand that his feed is cotton-seed, 

 wheat middlings and bran. 



Mr. Lyman. No ; corn meal, wheat middlings and cotton- 

 seed. 



Secretary Sessions. Will you please state the mixture to 

 the audience? 



Mr. Lyman. I use a little more of the corn meal and 

 wheat middlings than of the cotton-seed. A little less than 

 a quart a day of cotton-seed, and I feed four quarts of the 

 whole to a cow a day. Equal parts of corn meal and mid- 

 dlings and nearly a quart of cotton-seed meal, the whole 

 averaging four quarts a da3^ 



Mr. Wight. How many pounds of butter do you aver- 

 age during the year to the cow ? 



Mr. Lyman. I have not looked it up within a year. I 

 think I reach two hundred and fifty pounds to the cow. 



Question. You put it up in prints. Wouldn't it be 

 more satisfactory to your customers to have it put up in 

 jars ? 



Mr. Lyman. No ; I think not. 



