Show DAIRY COWS PRODUCE MORIN WITH WATER ALWAYS HANDY county agent C R richarda gives us the following report which comes from the U S dept of agriculture agri ri dairen dairymen van who want the most moat milk and butterfat from their cow should arrange to let them drink as artuch water as they want when they want it says T E woodward of the united states department of agriculture mr woodward who Is senior dairy husbandman in the bureau of dairy industry has completed experiments peri ments to determine the relation of methods of watering dairy cows to their water consumption and production the tests were run both in carmand warm and cold weather and included both high producing and low producing cows the results of watering twice a day and once a day were corli compared pared with results obtained when the cows had free access to water in these tests according to mr woodward the cows drank more water when watered only twice a day than when they had water at will or when watered only once a day but their production was highest when they had water at will the production pyo of the cows in this averaged 28 per cent more milk and 21 per cent more mori butterfat when given free access to water than when watered only twice a day and when watered twice a day they produced 1 pr per cent more milk and 14 per cent more butterfat than when watered only once a day |