State Convention—Butter-Making, Etc. 293 
President Stilson: I would say, as far as ray experience goes, I 
have never yet seen a man who could detect the cause of the color 
when carrots were used, the butter appearing like new butter in all 
respects. 
Mr. Benton: The question is, whether there has been an exam¬ 
ination made to ascertain this fact. It has been hinted here that 
the foreign matter in it did decay. That the butter you spoke 
of had never been subjected to conditions in which it would be re¬ 
vealed. This is a question of science as well as of experience. 
Professor Daniells: In regard to ascertaining the quality of the 
milk, I would say: I think in 'an ordinary drug-store you can get 
tubes about six inches long and three-fourths or seven-eighths of 
an inch in diameter, for about five cents a piece. Any man, by 
setting them down in a board, can use them for measuring the 
quality of milk very accurately, so it will be perfectly easy for any 
man to do this if he chooses. In regard to the use of the sugar- 
beet Mr. Anderson spoke of, it seems to me sugar-beets must be a 
most excellent food. I have never had an} r experience with them. 
It contains a large amount of sugar. The sugar is in condition to 
be readily taken up by the system. It contains material the 
cow wants, and I think it must be much more valuable food than 
the carrot. It does not contain so much oil as the carrot; so much 
coloring matter. I think it must be a much more profitable food 
on the whole, to use the true sugar-beet than the beet that goes by 
the name of sugar-beet. My opinion is, it is the Lane sugar-beet. 
A man in Vermont had a beet of the common variety. It is 
simply a common beet that is unusually sweet. It is not the true 
sugar-beet, so that all of 3-011 who experiment with this and wish 
to raise sugar-beets, ought to be careful of the seed you get, and 
get the true Silician sugar-beet. This common variety does not 
contain saccharinel matter enough to make sugar. 
Mr. Boyce: My experience with raising sugar-beets corresponds 
exactly with the statement made by Professor Daniells. I have 
raised the Lane sugar-beet and the White Silician sugar-beet. I 
consider the White Silician sugar-beet very much the better. I 
never fed any better root to milch-cows than the White Silician 
sugar-beet. They are easily cultivated. Most every farmer has a 
portion of his farm where he can cultivate these sugar-beets, and 
