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Q. — What flavor is produced from rye pasture? 



A. — Well, it is similar to that produced from other pasture. If scour- 

 ing takes place the milk will be tainted. 



Q. — Do I infer the objectionable flavor is nothing more than you get 

 from any green pasture? 



A. — It is more pronounced. 



Q. — Have you ever had any experience with cows eating rye that is 

 heading out? 



A. — Not that I recall now. 



Mr. Nowlan. — We sowed some rape with clover. One day the cows 



got in the rape and for two days you could not stay around those 

 cows while milking. It was a place where the rape was grown up may- 

 be eight inches high above everything else. Mr. Coolidge has had the 

 same experience. 



Mr. Coolidge. — We seldom ever raise any corn after the last plow- 

 ing and after picking the corn out, turn the cattle on, but they began 

 on the rape very gradually, eating corn first and tasting the rape and it 

 did not seem to have any affect upon the milk at all. We are selling 

 milk, but not making butter. The effect was very slight. 



. Prof. Erf. — Why the way they tried it here, they took as much of 

 the flavor out of the rape as possible and kept the cows in the stable 

 and found that no flavors were produced in the milk. They tried to 

 determine in that case whether it was absorbed by the milk or from the 

 outside. They can feed the animal rape as it was and they found that if 

 the animal is fed with rape before milking it would produce quite a 

 decided flavor, but after milking it had no effect to any great extent. 

 If you feed rape in large quantities it will produce a rank flavor. There 

 is no question about it. Mr. Latzer is right in his statement that you can 

 gradually feed a larger quantity than if you feed all at once, that is, 

 start all at once. His point is right in that respect. 



Mr. Spies. — We operate a line of creameries on the same road that 

 the condenser with which Mr. Latzer is connected, and the farmers 

 down there have sold a considerable quantity of rape in the last year or 



