Show DAIRY COWS NED MUCH watell WATE nt AND NEED IT ED As milk Is about 87 per cent water good dairy cows require i it great deal moro to drink than cattle not producing milk range cattle and dry stock in summer and winter can get along on one drink daily but this Is not enough for dairy cows tho the cow consumes a largo amount of food that Is mostly roughage and sho she must have water in order to assimilate tho tha food and digest it properly it lias has been found by experiment that 6 cows consume front from 77 pounds to pounds of water dally daily k small jersey cow giving 27 pounds dounda of milk dally daily needs need s over 70 pounds ot or water while a pro producing aucin pounds of milk needs pounds ot 0 water dally daily these cheso figures indicate that with feeds tinier con aid side rabla erable succulence 0 cows cowa consume about 3 pounds of water to one pound of milk produced dally daily when green feed beat pulp or silage Is red fed lit la large quantities tho the amount of water consumed will not bo be as great water should bo be close at hand at all times for good dairy cows and they should bo be encouraged to drink it at least twice dally daily the best source of 0 water for cows is deep wells artesian wells wella or warm springs tile the ordinary irrin irrigation tion canal or ditch where tit the ice must be chopped from the surface before tho the cows car cai drolc dr lis Is the borrest source of water and cower drinking front from such shiver and hunch up their backs and do not drink as much as twy tiey should have to keep up their production cows should never drink from ponds of stagnant pools that drain frow froni corral or out buildings of any sort such water muy may have a serious upon the milk produced ono of the beat things about modern modera barn equipment la is tho stall drinking cup george B cattle calne professor of dairy husbandry utah agricula ual collego |