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Dr. Byford examined it, and he reports that there is. Now, how are you going 

 to convict anybody on such evidence as that? 



Mr. Buell: It seems to me that the first point for us is to find out how 

 to make a law that will be effectual, which can be executed. I confess that I 

 am not able to suggest any such law, and I doubt if there are any in this associa- 

 ation who are lawyers enough to do so. What we want is to consult a man in 

 whose opinion we have confidence, and it, seems to me that the first thing for 

 this association to do, in their efforts to suppress the manufacture of butterine, 

 is to consult eminent counsel as to what should be done, and pay him $100,00 

 or $200,00 or $500,00, if necessary. Let us have a law which shall be effectual 

 under our constitution. It seems to me to be folly to expect our legislators to 

 act, when we don't know what we want or can do ourselves. The first question 

 to settle is, What kind of a law do we want? 



Mr. Boyd: I cannot agree with Mr. Buell. This is a practical question; 

 it is not a question for lawyers at all. If you cannot answer it there is no hope 

 for you. 



Mr. Curtis: we have a law in New York, which we think is quite 

 effective. We have a law for the suppression of all imitations, adulterations, 

 counterfeits and frauds, and the only portion of that law, which was pronounced 

 unconstitutional, was the single clause prohibiting the manufacture of a substi- 

 tute for butter. Now, a substitute may be a very nice article, and all our 

 progress in this world comes from substituting a better thing than what we 

 already have, but that is different to a counterfeit, which is sold for the genuine. 



Mr. Johnson: With this law, have you sold less butterine than you did 

 before? 



Mr. Curtis: Yes, and have had a great many convictions. Within two or 

 three months we have had sixty convictions in the city of New York. That 

 shows, of course, that we are actively pushing it, and these fellows will get sick 

 of it after a while. 



Convention adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock P. M. 



Convention met pursuant to adjournment at 2 o'clock P. M. 



CORN-STALKS COMPARED WITH MIXED HAY AND CLOVER HAY 

 FOR PRODUCING MILK AND BUTTER. 



BY PROF. W. A. HENRY, 

 Of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, Madison, Wisconsin. 



The following described experiments were conducted to ascertain : 



1st. The relative values of corn fodder and mixed hay for producing milk 

 and butter. 



2d. The relative values of corn fodder and clover hay for producing milk 

 and butter. 



3d. The amount of milk and butter an acre of corn will make when fed 

 to milch cows. 



4th. The value of an acre of corn when turned into milk and butter. 



All the materials fed were good of their kind, the corn-stalks being from a 

 lot described further on, cut early, and well cured in the shock and bound into 

 bundles, after husking the fully matured ears. The mixed hay was about one- 

 third clover and two-thirds timothy. The clover hay was from medium red 



