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Show Soft Water Ration Ups Milk Production Fifty Percent Increase Shown From Experiments The effects of soft water on milk production of cows was reported at a recent meeting of the Sheboygan County Holstein Breeders association associa-tion meeting at Plymouth, Wis. Milk production of two test cows Increased up to 50 percent when cows were switched from hard water to a soft water ration. One animal, a high production Holstein-Fresian, had never exceeded exceed-ed an 80-pound daily production un-i j , .4 k a E. J. Culligan is shown above with one of the animals used in his aerated soft water ration test. The animal increased milk production as much as 50 percent per-cent when switched from hard water. til fed soft water. The animal, Seth-je Seth-je Delia Forbes (Reg. No. 2,356,-827) 2,356,-827) increased milk flow to 121 pounds, 50 percent greater than her previous high. Previous records show that this same cow produced an average of 55.8 pounds of milk per day for three months following the birth of her first calf in 1946. After the second calf the following year her average was 68.6 pounds, and then the average aver-age was 55.7 and 72.1 pounds after the birth of succeeding calves. Thirty days before this cow was to have her fifth calf she was given aerated soft water to drink in place of the 19 grain hard water previously previous-ly supplied. Her average production jumped to 102.7 pounds for the 90-day 90-day period following the calving. The experiment was conducted by E. J. Culligah of Northbrook, 111. |