richer milk by proper feed, that is, to increase the 

 amount of butter fat in the milk per hundred pounds. 



Mr. Sawyer: You have some cows that will give 

 four per cent, of butter fat, and you have others that 

 will give six per cent. Now, how are you going to 

 work to make those four per cent, cows give six per 

 cent.? 



Mr. Allen : I will tell you what I did. This is a 

 question that I have thought over more than one day; 

 in fact, I have thought of it for years, and I have 

 read every article that I can find bearing on the sub- 

 ject, and I have read in the common newspapers that 

 after feeding so and so you could increase the richness 

 of a cow's milk. I tried it, and I did not succeed. I 

 saw statements of men that they could do it, and I 

 saw records of cows where, according to the record, it 

 was done, and I wanted to know how it it was done 

 and I inquired. I remember that three or four 

 years ago when this association met in Springfield, 

 just before the meeting of this association, there was a 

 meeting of Jersey breeders, and I was present at both 

 meetings, because I wanted to see those Jersey breeders 

 and hear what they had to say, and among them was 

 one gentleman that has been very successful in getting 

 incredible amounts of butter from individual cows, 

 or at least very large yields of butter, and he did it 

 from very small quantities of milk, and I was fortunate 

 enough to become acquainted with him, and I asked 

 him about it. I told him what I had done, and how I 

 had failed in doing it, and says he, "The trouble with 

 you is, you did not keep it up long enough." One of 

 his statements was a good deal like this. Says he, 

 " Give me a cow that gives thirty-five pounds of milk 

 and I will give her feed " — as he expressed it, "I will 



