Show DAIRY A FACTS YELLOW CREAM AND BUTTER experiments show popular 0 belief that color indicates richness in quality mistaken tho the belief that a bright yellow color in milk means meana richness in quality Is not true experiments conducted at the college of agriculture of at the university of Miss missouri ourt show that tho tha change from the white cream and butter er in winter to yellow eream cream and butter in spring and summer does not indicate tin an increased fat percentage the very highest colored milk that a cow can give may have tho the lowest fat percentage such a condition la is found in the so called milk the first milk that a cow gives after giving birth to a calf the explanation of the wide difference between the results of the e experiments peri ments menta and the popular belief in regard to the relation of color to richness lies in the canao of tho the natural yellow y e how color of 0 cream and butter it wa was a found that cows were not able to produce the yellow oo coloring loring matter for their cream and butter the coloring matter matier must bo be derived from the teed feed the yellow coloring matter of milk ans found to be identical with a yellow coloring matter that Is widely distributed tri buted in plants and fresh grass grasa this coloring matter Is called jt t takes take Us its name from tho the carrot where it to Is very abundant and where it was first discovered by scientists more than one hundred years ago the difference in the color of cream and butter in winter and spring was found to bo be due to the tact fact that the winter feeds contain little or no no marked increase in the fat percentage accompanies the increase in color when foods rich in are fed it has been shown that the everage average cow gives a higher per cent of tat fat in its milk during the winter than in the spring and summer |