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Show COWS LIKE NICE WARM DRINK Animals Will Not Consume Needed Amount of Water When It Is Bitterly Cold. Do not permit your cows to diink ice water, Is the admonition of E. A. Hanson, dairy extension specialist at University farm. "Cows will not drink the needed amount of water when It Is cold." says Mr. Hanson. "If the stall9 are not provided with water buckets, place a tank henter In your tank. It Is far chenper to heat the water with coal and corn cobs in the tank heater thnn with corn fed to the cows." Winter Dairying Profitable. Winter dairying" Is profitable with good care and good cows. Better test your cows, weighing the milk night and morning for a week or so. and using the Babcock test to find out how rich the milk Is. Will "Dry Off" in Hurry. A cow that Is In good condition will keep up her milk flow for a time even though she Is underfed; hut gradually gradu-ally her system will be robbed of Its surplus flesh, und she will "dry off" In u hurry. |