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Show WARM WATER FOR DAIRY COW Experiments at Missouri Station Show Liquid Is Needed In Proportion to Milk Yield. (By II. K. M'NATT. IXitrr Department, 1'nlverslty of Mlmiuurl.) It Is very Important that the water drunk by the cows giving three or more gallons of milk dally be warmed to about GO degrees Fahrenheit Otherwise Oth-erwise the cows will not drink as much as they need to kep up a good milk 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 to got to the tank or pond. Experiments made at the Missouri station show that drinking water 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 gal-lons a day. If the water la too cold to be comfortable if drunk In large quantities, the cow will not drink enough, and as a result will drop considerably con-siderably In her milk yield. When Missouri Chief Josephine was giving about 100 pounds of milk each day last winter she drunk daily about 31 gallons of water. Imagine bow she would have Buffered If that bad been Ice water. It was warmed, how-ever, how-ever, and Josephine did not chill after drinking. A good tank heater, or some other device should be used this winter to warm the water for the cows. It will pay. |