646 TEAysACTiOjys of the American Institute. 



finds that no two cows are alike in the time in which their cream 

 turns to butter. He has churned the cream of two good cows in the 

 same mess. One would turn to butter first. He took that out and 

 continued to churn, and a second batch of butter was the result. He 

 is satisfied that butter is often thrown away in buttermilk when the 

 milk of different cows is churned together, and says the best way is 

 to churn each cow's milk by itself till the characteristics of her milk 

 are well understood. When he would make a prize article and get 

 the best returns from his dairy he uses the old fashioned up and 

 down churn, and takes the cream from one cow only at a time. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis. — But there are cows whose milk it seems almost 

 impossible to turn into butter when churned alone, but which, when 

 churned in connection with that from other cows, changes with com- 

 paratively little trouble. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — And it might be added that the milk of some 

 cows seems entirely unsuited to produce butter. For instance, I once 

 owned a cow which yielded twenty-four quarts of milk per day, and 

 to look at it you would say it must be rich, but we could never get 

 more than four pounds of butter per week. Afterward I changed, 

 and got a cow that, on the same feed, gave only half the quantity of 

 milk and made twice the quantity of butter. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis. — There is little doubt that the milk of certain cows 

 is, to a great extent, destitute also of nutritive'qualities. A neighbor of 

 mine, in Saratoga county, had a cow which couldn't even fatten her own 

 calf, and the poor thing pined, and I am not certain but that it died. I 

 know there are doubters who will maliciously maintain that the calf had 

 worms or some such thing, but that does not prove the falsity of this 

 statement, and, in the absence of the doctors, I may be permitted to 

 suggest that mothers who bring up their babes on the bottle would 

 do well to make sure that the cow upon wliich they rely gives good 

 ricli milk. I am always particular about this in my fiimily. 



Kentucky Blue Grass. 

 Mr. P. S. Kennedy, of Crawfordsville, Ind., wrote to say that it 

 is all a mistake to suppose that the above named variety will grow 

 nowhere but in central Kentucky. I was raised in one of the most 

 noted blue grass counties of that State, but for the last seventeen 

 years have lived in central Indiana; and I am prepared to prove 

 to any one who will come here that a great portion of the land in 

 this region is quite as well adapted to blue grass as the best blue 



