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May 28 
ILIVE STOCK! 
AND DAIRY. 
DOES ENSILAGE TAINT MILK ? 
WIIAT OBJECTION CAN UK MAPE TO IT? 
We ofteu learn of cases where buyers of milk 
will not permit their milk producers to use a silo 
or feed ensilage. They claim that this ensilage 
fed to cows gives a peculiar flavor which is dis¬ 
tasteful to some customers. We think that this 
objection is general among proprietors of milk 
condenserles, who object seriously to the feeding 
of ensilage. We would like to know, if possible, 
whether there is any sense or science in this ob¬ 
jection to the feeding of ensilage. Is it probable 
that feeding the ensilage at noon, or when the 
cows are not being milked, would make any dif¬ 
ference in this respect V Does not the milk itself 
absorb the objectionable odor from the silo or 
the ensilage that is fed during the milking time ? 
Is there any scientific reason why ensilage of 
good quality should affect milk injuriously? 
When the Ensilage Smell Is Absorbed. 
We have made careful experiments in 
comparing' ensilage, hay and meal with 
roots (mangels) hay and meal, and with 
hay and meal, and we have invariably 
had as nice-flavored milk from feeding 
35 to 40 pounds of corn ensilage mixed 
with cut hay, as when feeding any other 
feed during Winter. If spoiled ensilage 
is fed, or if the milk is left in the stable 
too long, or left near the silo or ensilage 
until it cools to the temperature of the 
surrounding air, then it will begin to 
absorb the ensilage flavor. Again, if 
cows are milked when there is a flavor 
of ensilage in the stable, the ktream of 
rnilk will carry the odor into the pails,and 
there will be a mechanical mixture of 
ensilage-laden air and milk. This can 
be eliminated by aeration. It is better 
not to feed ensilage too near milking 
time, and to remove the milk from the 
stable as soon as possible after milking. 
Ontario Ag’l College. u. h. dean. 
Ex-Gov. Hoard’s Opinion. 
So far as I have been able to know 
and investigate, there is no reason or 
sense why modern ensilage may not be 
used as a feed in proper quantities, for 
the making of condensed milk. The 
Hoard Creamery Company has a very 
critical trade among from 5,000 to 7,000 
of the best families in the cities of St. 
1 iouis, I’ittsburg, Chicago and Milwaukee 
in the furnishing of butter. In the 10 
creameries, there are about 800 patrons, 
and there are several hundred silos 
among them. In all our experience, we 
have never yet detected any wrong 
flavor of either milk or cream from this 
source, neither have we heard any com¬ 
plaints from those who receive butter. 
It seems to me that, partially at least, 
this disproves any objection to the use 
of good ensilage in the making of milk. 
I know of no scientific reason why ensi¬ 
lage should affect milk injuriously. It 
seems to me that the condenser owes it 
to his patrons, paying as low a price as 
he does for milk, to give them the op¬ 
portunity of using this very cheap and 
valuable food, but at the same time 
throwing around it such safeguards as 
to amount consumed per cow as may be 
deemed best in the premises. 
Ed. Hoard’s Dairyman. w. n. hoard. 
How Food Influences Flavor. 
There is no doubt that the flavor of 
milk is largely influenced by the food 
that the cow eats. Ensilage, corn meal, 
beets, clover, turnips, onions, cabbage, 
grass, all exert an influence upon the 
flavor of the milk, varying in intensity 
under various conditions. The flavor of 
some of these foods is always disliked, 
the flavor of others is always liked, while 
a few, and among them ensilage, impart 
flavors that are sometimes objected to 
and sometimes not. This objection may 
or may not be due to an unreasoning 
prejudice ; it is an important commercial 
factor. If a man dislikes a thing, he 
will not buy it, even though its intrinsic 
value be unimpaired. I do not know 
that milk strongly tainted with garlic is 
not just as good for food as that most 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
delicately flavored with the finest grasses, 
but it is unsalable, and the same holds 
with ensilage to those to whom it is ob¬ 
jectionable. 
It is not probable that the ensilage 
flavor is absorbed by the milk after it is 
drawn if the latter is removed from the 
stable while still warm ; but it is pos¬ 
sible that the odor inhaled through the 
lungs of the animal may be diffused 
through the body, and so reach the milk. 
If the ensilage is of good quality ; if the 
bai n is kept reasonably free of the odor, 
and if the cows are fed immediately after 
milking, the amount of ensilage flavor 
imparted to the milk ought not to be 
objectionable to any reasonable con¬ 
sumer. That there are unreasonable 
consumers is undoubted, but let us hope 
that they will either discover reason or 
have to pay a good round premium for 
their milk. [prof.J n. li. WING. 
Cornell University. 
No Objection Can Fairly Be Made. 
After 12 years’ use of ensilage in my 
dairy, a close watch of its effects, its 
steady use in the family, under all con¬ 
ditions—milk, cream, butter and “make¬ 
ups” of all kinds from the milk—and 
during the time supplying several 
families with milk, on which to bring 
up at least six babies, then, and now 
as healthy as one would wish to see, 
I am at a loss to understand how it 
is that there can be any objection to 
ensilage-made milk. I am aware that 
some claim to detect an odor and taste 
in ensilage-made milk ; but if such is the 
ease, I am convinced that the milk has, 
in some way, been allowed to absorb the 
odor of the ensilage, hut after several 
experiments, we have come to believe 
that this is a very remote possibility. I 
think that the objection to ensilage 
milk is a prejudice and not a reality. 
As good scientific men as Profs. Roberts, 
Jordan and Robertson, have this past 
Winter, in my hearing, asserted that, 
after years of experience, they have 
come to the conclusion that no better 
milk can be made than is produced from 
good ensilage. 
Prof. Henry, in his new book on feed¬ 
ing, asserts, “ There is no longer any 
foundation for objections to the legiti¬ 
mate use of ensilage in the making of 
milk.” Even if a slight ’flavor could be 
detected, it has no deleterious effect 
upon milk, as nearly all of our best 
foods have peculiarities of flavor about 
them which are detected in the milk, 
notably clover and Blue grass ; but no 
one objects to milk from a cow fed upon 
Blue grass. We have heard it asserted 
that, if the feeding of ensilage was done 
after milking, the objection would be 
remedied. We have so fed our dairy 
most of the time, but mainly for the 
reason that I prefer a cow to have her 
ration after milking, from the fact that 
we feed only twice a day, and feeding 
before milking amounts to messing a 
cow to get her milk, and soon gets her 
into the no-iness, no-milk, habit. Cows 
with empty mangers stand quieter to be 
milked, but I could never detect any 
difference in the taste of the milk 
whether the ensilage was fed before 
or after milking, so far as its flavor 
is concerned. I know that some of 
the famous dairies of the country that 
produce milk for the most critical 
customers, sanitariums, and even “cer¬ 
tified milk” as made by Francisco of 
New Jersey, and Curler, of Illinois, 
are fed ensilage 3fi5 days in the year. It 
is the same with the very fancy butter 
trade of the cities. It is safe to say that 
one-third of all the Winter milk that 
goes into the city of Cleveland, is from 
ensilage-fed cows, and 100 new silos will 
A good lamp-chimney deal¬ 
er keeps Macbeth and no 
other. 
Index tells what Number to 
get. 
be built this season among these milk 
producers. 
It is true that the eastern eondenseries 
prohibit the feeding of ensilage, but it is 
also a fact that the same order forbids 
the feeding of brewers’ grains, gluten, 
oil meal, malt sprouts, and even other 
foods which are quite as good, so it is 
not a fact that ensilage is alone tabooed. 
The western eondenseries allow good 
ensilage to be fed to the dairies supply¬ 
ing them with milk, and it is not known 
that the products of these eondenseries 
are not keeping as well, and giving as 
good satisfaction to the trade and con¬ 
sumers, as the hay and corn meal made 
condensed milk. I have been making a 
study of this matter for a dozen years, 
and making personal observations in a 
dozen or more States, and I have never 
found a valid, substantial, and scientific 
reason why ensilage of good quality 
should affect milk injuriously. The 
facts are, that before it can be proved 
that ensilage does affect milk in the pro¬ 
cess of elaboration, some one will need 
to point out lww milk is made. A few 
more experiments like that of Prof 
Jordan, and the one of Prof. Dean of 
Ontario, showing that more than half of 
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