110 THE FARM DAIRY. 



helped many to understand the principle in- 

 volved in the work. Our mothers, wives, and 

 sisters understand canning fruit, and they know 

 better, than to use an imperfect fruit can. But 

 we foolish men many times think anything is 

 good enough in which to can feed for the cows. 

 We do not always feel good natured when our 

 canned fruit is spoiled; we do not relish it be- 

 cause it is not palatable. The cow rebels against 

 injured, unpalatable food by eating less, but she 

 gets even with us because she cannot help it. 

 When her food is unpalatable, causing her to 

 eat less, she has less to return to us after she has 

 cared for herself and we suffer from our neglect 

 or lack of intelligence. The cow does not know 

 which it is, but she does know that something is 

 wrong and cannot prevent showing it if she 

 would. 



Sound Silage Does Not Taint Milk. — In my 

 early experience with corn silage as feed for 

 cows producing milk for butter-making, I had a 

 few tubs of butter made from silage-fed-milk 

 and sent it to New York with a weekly shipment 

 from one of my creameries, marking the tubs 

 so they could be described and having them 

 scored as numbered, the scorer knowing noth- 

 ing of the difference in feed. In this case there 

 was not one point brought out against the sil- 

 age. The flavor of the silage butter was fully 

 equal to the flavor of the dry feed butter. 



