nd we saw a little darky coming across the field, just a streak.
He said, "Missus says come over to the house." I went over there, and
she was just a little bit embarrassed, but she said, "Mr. Moore, I have
decided if honeylocust was good for the goose it was good for the
gander, so I have been feeding honeylocust to my cows." And she went on
with that story and said that she had been selling milk to a fraternity
over in town, and the boys at the fraternity, after she had fed the cows
honeylocust for a week or two, asked her what had happened to her milk,
and she told them--she said honestly she was afraid she was going to
lose the trade, she thought something bad was wrong with it. She told
them, that so far as she knew there wasn't anything. They said, "Have
you done anything to it?" "No, we haven't." They said, "Well, it's the
best milk we have ever had, and we can tell the difference in the
taste." And then she told them what she had done. She wouldn't tell them
before.

Now, we have had story after story coming to us to corroborate that.
Now, I have never seen with my cow any difference in milk flavor, either
good or bad, but my wife can definitely tell, and she is very particular
about her butter, because she likes to sell that. I can quit feeding
honeylocust a few days, and my wife will say, "How come you quit feeding
honeylocust to the cow?" It is that definite.

There are two things I want to mention: The value of a combination of a
perennial ground cover with your honeylocust tree, and then I want to
mention the fact that honeylocust _planted_ in a pasture will give no
benefit whatsoever. You are going to have to grow your honeylocust on
the outside, harvest the pods and feed them just like you would corn, or
you are going to have to plant your honeylocust on a barren hillside
someplace that doesn't grow anything else--and I think honeylocust will
grow with a little fertilizer on about the poorest soil you have, the
most eroded soil you have, with a little care--then pasture it after
your trees are large enough so that the cow won't eat the limbs. There
is something about the tree itself that a cow loves. They will chew the
bark and chew the limbs right down to the main trunk.

We have tried planting those trees at four years of age, even, in
pastures, and we just can't get them to survive. In fact, the cows and
the mules in our pasture ate the trees down to the stumps in the
wintertime before they ever star