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Prof. Farrington : I think he follows the practice 

 of most farmers. 



Mr. Allen : The next cow you test I would like 

 you to insist on the cow being milked exactly to the 

 minute. My own experience is that it makes a great 

 deal of difference. The rules of our Jersey Cattle 

 Club require that the cow be milked at a stated time 

 in making tests. I made a test once for thirty days 

 of a cow, and at six o'clock exactly. I made it a prac- 

 tice to drop all other work, but occasionally something 

 would happen, and 1 would be half an hour late. At 

 those times I would get more milk, of course, and I 

 also found I got a larger amount of butter, whereas 

 if I had milked before this stated time, I got less milk 

 naturally, and there would be a great deal less butter 

 in it. I would like to have the professor, in his next 

 experiment, keep that in sight. 



Mr. Sawyer took the chair. 



Mr. Allen : You remarked of one cow, in particu- 

 lar, that when she gave a larger amount, she gave 

 richer milk. Ordinarily the general impression is that 

 when they give a small amount of milk it is richer. 



Prof. Farrington: I think that is the rule. 



Mr. Allen : My experience has most always been 

 the other way. When I get a large amount of milk, I 

 can generally get more butter out of it. 



Prof. Farrington : I was surprised when I found 

 that result in this case. I think possibly it may be a 

 peculiarity of those sensitive, highly-organized Jer- 

 seys. None of the other cows that I have tested have 

 shown that. 



Mr. Johnson : On Sunday mornings our cows are 

 always milked half an hour or an hour later, and as a 

 result, we always get more milk, but that milk never 

 yields as much butter fat as on other days. 



