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school. In the past three months we have been much troubled 

 from the cream from this particular herd ; it had such an offen- 

 sive smell we did not want to use it, and we sent word over to 

 this man asking if he could not do something to remove the bad 

 odor from his cream. He wanted me to go over to his farm 

 and I did so, and looked over his herd. I found his barn clean 

 and he said his herd was in much better condition than most of 

 the herds that were supplying us with milk and he did not see 

 why his cream should be complained of. I went there several 

 times but could find nothing. We had to keep his cream separ- 

 ate from the other cream, because it had a strong odor, and sev- 

 eral times we suffered some loss. When I went over there this 

 winter one day one of the first things I noticed when I went into 

 the barn was the odor we got from his cream when it comes to 

 the dairy school. He had three silos; he had good ventilators 

 for taking the air out of his barn and that went up through the 

 peak of the roof, and he fed the air into the barn through these 

 silos, and so all the air that was in the barn was contaminated 

 with this odor of silage. That showed in a minute the trouble 

 in his barn, and he had not happened to realize it. We had him 

 close up these silos, after taking the silage out, remove all the 

 silage from the cows after they had finished eating, and also 

 feed silage after rather than before milking, and they have im- 

 proved that cream very much. 



I know it has been spoken of on dairy platforms and in 

 dairy papers and it has been proved conclusively that you can 

 feed silage freely, and it is only a question of finding out how to 

 do it. This is one experience we have had, and we found the 

 cause and remedy for the difficulty. 



Mr. Wilson : — I want to give a little experience I found in 

 one of our agricultural colleges where they were feeding silage. 

 They were showing the barns and all the appurtenances thereto, 

 how nicely they were doing. We were in one barn and if any- 

 body should milk in that barn with the silage flavor that was pre- 

 vailing there, I am sure the cream would taste of that silage. I 

 do not know whether they could prevent that or not, but the 



