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non-silage were moved into another barn and the milk kept in a differ- 

 ent place. No odors observable that did not come through the cow. No-. 

 notice of food giving taint to the milk. It is a well-known fact foo(f 

 will taint when milking is done soon after feeding, than a long time after^ 

 The first test fed one hour before milking, and in this case we fed after 

 milking to see if there was any difference. The milk was mixed from 

 three cows on silage, and the other three not fed silage, and the milk put 

 in pint bottles and corked, and then taken to these diSlerent people, and 

 they were given a sample of each. They were asked these three ques- 

 tions: "'Any difference in the milk between the two samples given?" 

 "Have any objection to either?" "Which they preferred, the silage or 

 the non-silage?" This was a test with the professors at the univer- 

 sity. The first ten tests were made with one professor. In every case 

 he could ?ee a difference in them, but no objection to any. These were 

 taken to him at different times. The first five times he preferre<t 

 silage milk. The next time he could see a difference between them an«i, 

 preferred non-silage. 



No. 2 professor preferred silage. No. 3 just the same. No. 4 couLi 

 see a difference; no objection to either, but preferred non-silage. No. 5 

 preferred non-silage. No. 7 could see no difference between them; wtis 

 the only one that could not see the difference. 



There were twenty-nine that could see a difference and one that 

 could not in this test. There were thirty in the test. No. 9 could see a 

 difference and objected to taste of the silage milk and he preferred nott- 

 silage. There were two who had no choice, twenty-one that preferred 

 silage and seven non-silage. Three-fourths actually preferred silage milk 

 in the first test. 



Tried feeding after milking to see if there was any difference and it 

 came out the same as first. It was not quite as easy to distinguish a differ- 

 ence. 



There are more nos in the second column. Five could see no differ- 

 ence in it, and nineteen who could see a difference. No objection to any 

 of it. Those' that preferred silage were fifteen, non-silage four, anii 



