Show WARM WATER FOR DAIRY COW experiments at missouri station show liquid Is needed in proportion to milk yield dy by ir II IS AMATT dalry dairy department de P artmont art ment university ot of alasso u rf it la Is very important that the water drunk by the cows cowa giving three or more we gallons of milk dally daily be warmed it to 0 about 6 60 0 degrees fahrenheit otherwise the cows will not drink as much as they need to keep up a a good milk floii flow it does not take much ice water to chill a thin fleshed dairy cow through and through on a cold winter day especially when she Is compelled to walk some distance through the snow or a cutting wind w ind to get to the tank or pond experiments made at the missouri station show that drinking water la Is needed in proportion to the milk yield that Is a cow giving six gallons of milk a day needs about twice as much water as a cow giving three gallons a day if the water Is too cold to bo be comfortable if drunk la in large quantities the cow will not drink enough and as a result will drop considerably sider ably in her milk yield when missouri chief josephine was waa giving about pounds of milk each day last winter she drunk dally daily about 31 gallons of water imagine how she would have suffered it if that had been ice water it was warmed however and josephine did not chill after drinking A good tank heater or somo some other device should be used this winter to warm the water for the cows cowa it will pay |