Show PROVIDE WATER FOR CATTLE Ponds Springs Troughs and Other Facilities Should Be Cleaned and Put In Shape Prepared by the United States Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture Before turning cattle thit have ha-e been kept In the barn or lot ioV during the winter onto a pasture a water vater supply should be careful y pr for Ponds springs watering troughs or other facilities for watering should be cleaned and put into l' l shape It Is frequently thought that time the water supply supply sup sup- i ply is a abundant early eary n n time the season and find therefore that no attention need be given gh-en to It This is a mistake as springs and ponds fill up mp during the time winter and troughs become damaged I Os I I I tot tr I Water Supply for Live Stock Is of Greatest Importance so 80 they fall fail to hold sufficient for the needs of ot the time catti cattle In m most st cases eases the time water supply cannot annot be materially increased so care must be betaken be betaken betaken taken to conserve e what Is available It Is advisable to fence nr mound around springs to prevent the cattle from tramping the earth and polluting the water The maximum use of water from a spring can be obtained ed ly iy providing two or three troughs set so that th time the overflow from one will run nn into time next one This arrangement arrangement not makes males the water more accessible gt to the stock but Jut keeps it cleaner an mind and x bett better r. r |