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others, and you will get no more butter fat from that 

 cow because every cow is limited to what she can 

 handle, and a cow that is a butter cow is going to 

 manufacture butter out of the feed regardless of the 

 quantity of fat that there is in the feed. That is some- 

 thing that the cow handles herself, and there is no 

 man can tell how she does it. One cow will put it in 

 butter, and another will put it on her ribs. 



Mr. Cox (of Kentucky): I came up here at the sug- 

 gestion of your secretary, and am very glad to meet 

 with you. Now, it seems to me that this question 

 under discussion is rather split. In the first place, 

 some cows will produce a great deal more butter from 

 the same feed than others will, but then the same 

 cow fed a different ration, a ration richer in fat, will 

 produce more from the rich feed than from the poor 

 feed. Now, I take the other extreme. Will a cow, 

 fed on turnips, produce as rich milk as she will if she is 

 fed on grain? 



Mr. Sawyer: I think a little turnips along with the 

 grain will help your cow much better than all turnips 

 or all grain, and right there is the fine point where 

 every dairyman must study his cow. It is utterly im- 

 possible for any man to go to work and lay down a 

 rule and say you can handle all cows thus and so and 

 get results thus and so. Mr. Allen was trying to 

 bring his cow up all the time, and was feeding until he 

 overdid the thing, and he couldn't bring her back to 

 where she was before, and that is where a very fine 

 point in feeding dairy cows comes in. 



The Chairman: "We are very fortunate in having 

 with us to-day Prof. Farrington, who is well qualified 

 to talk on this matter, and we would like to hear from 

 him. 



