292 Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
Mr. Benton: I would like to ask whether the feed of the cow 
affects the color of the butter? 
Mr. Curtis: lliave no doubt it does. I think the reason why 
butter is white in the winter, is because the grass is too ripe when 
cut. It is woody. 
Mr. Benton: Would the feeding of corn-meal make yellow but¬ 
ter? 
Mr. Curtis: I think it would. 
Mr. Benton: I am feeding yellow corn this winter, and you can 
detect it in the color of the butter. 
Mr. Anderson: I would like to confirm what Mr. Curtis said 
about cutting hay. We cut our clover very early; when in blos¬ 
som, and the butter w~as just as yellow as though the cows were 
on good pasture. 
Mr. Allen: I would like to confirm the statement of feeding 
clover when it is cut green. 
Mr. Clark: I would like to know if you use ice? 
Mr. Curtis: I do not. In preparing this paper, I stated it was 
designed for a large class of butter-makers, not the heavy class that 
can procure ice and things of that character. 
Mr. Clark: Many small farmers have ice-houses of their own, 
and do use it. 
Mr. Curtis: I have a very excellent cellar. I can keep the tem¬ 
perature as prescribed very nearly, seldom, if ever, getting warmer 
than sixty-five degrees. 
Question: I would like to ask, if you ever find any trouble 
with coloring the butter by carrots, as to its keeping qualities? 
Mr. Curtis: Our butter sells within two or three weeks. There 
might be trouble if long kept. 
Question: I have had trouble in the butter; would not keep 
sweet and nice-flavored for a great length of time 
Mr. Benton: That raises a point that should be observed in all 
of these matters; and that is, the introduction of natural processes 
in the manufacturing of all articles. That is virtually an adulter¬ 
ation, introducing a foreign substance into the butter. The ques¬ 
tion is, will we not have a better product in all cases to let nature 
and the laboratory of nature do the work. Introduce no foreign 
substance of any kind into the butter except your salt. That is the 
question I would wish to have settled here. 
