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Q. Soja bean wouldn't be as good as clover? 



A. I don't know. 



Q. Does feeding ensilage affect the quality of the milk? 



A. I don't know how to get at that. I will have to tell you a little 

 incident. There is a prominent milk dealer in Chicago that every times 

 he meets me begins talking of feeding ensilage. Finally I told him I 

 would bet him two to one that he couldn't tell milk made from ensilage 

 in comparison with dry food milk unless because ensilage milk is better. 

 He has not said ensilage to me since. Now to go back to my early ex- 

 periences. To satisfy myself I had the milk shipped to New York from 

 my own dairy, with a regular weekly shipment to parties who were 

 taking all my make of butter. Marked the ensilage butter so that I 

 «ould describe the package and told those parties I wanted their judg- 

 ment on those packages. I wanted the score on the two. That is all 

 the information they got. When the report came, some were off in salt 

 and some in color. No objection on flavor. It was equal to the other 

 butter. 



In the butter line here a few years ago I was down in the country 

 south and was appointed to score the butter. In scoring that butter a 

 package stood up above all the others in flavor right clearly. I thought 

 no more about it until the meeting adjourned and then a farmer came to 

 me and he said, "Mr. Gurler I am pleased, I want to tell you that that 

 l>utter that scored the highest in flavor was mine, and that I feed my 

 cows nothing but ensilage, and I am the laughing stock of the whole coun- 

 try." 



When it comes to shipping certified milk to Chicago I did not dare 

 feed ensilage to the cows in the certified milk stable. I had samples of 

 milk from that stable where they had all dry feed, and from the other 

 stable where they were fed ensilage. I had them marked so I knew 

 which was which, and had them brought to the house. My wife and 

 daughters did not know and were put on their merit for a month, pretty 

 nearly every day as to which was the best milk. It was very seldom 

 w^hen the ensilage milk was not selected as the best milk of the two. 



