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milk was not hurt from anything the cow ate, but hy the odor that came 

 to the milk after. 



A. In any sound food. 



Q. I want to know if brewers' grain would not affect the milk? 



A. Any poor food would. 



Prof. Fraser: That was not ray idea. It might put your cow in an 

 abnormal condition and an abnormal condition would make poor milk. 



Mr. Gurler: Ensilage- is a moist food and more apt to decay. There 

 is no system about it. TJaey will leave some parts of it exposed and that 

 will decay and then there will be trouble. In the use of the silo, it must 

 be taken care of. We can make better flavored butter with sileage than 

 anything else. 



Q. Mr. Wright: How about wild onions and such things for our 



cows 



A. Oh, you know more about that than I do. 



CAKE AND HANDLING MILK ON THE FARM, 



BY PROP. OSCAR E RF, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



Mr. Gurler has gone over this subject so thoroughly that I think there 

 is nothing left for me to say. 



It reminds me of the story of two Irishmen, Pat and Jack. They went 

 to a hotel and before they went to bed they took with them a bottle of the 

 elixir of life. Before they got into bed they wondered what to do with this 

 bottle; whether to drink it before they went to bed, or whether to wait 

 until morning. So they decided that they would wait until morning, and 

 put the bottle at the foot of the bed. 



During the night Pat woke up, and he thought of the past, and he 



