Show r i water for stock in ip winter A large proportion of the food of 0 our u r animals is used to keep up the temperature of the ibe body to abo about u t one hundred degrees cold weather damp barnyards barn yards cracks in the barn or chedes want of bedding and exposure exposures to storms greatly increase the cons consumption emption of food to no good purpose much bluch more regard is now paid to the comfort of our stock in these respects than formerly we think however many fail to realize the loss of food sustained by compelling i animals to drink ico ice cold water I 1 water MI ter as it comes coines fresh from the well has a temperature of about fifty five degree degrees when allowed to stand until frozen over and the 1 ice ce then broken and add pieces of ice suffered to remain in the water the temperature speedily falle falls to thirty five degrees experiments are reported which seem to show that it pays to artificially war warm nithe the d drinking water for cowe cows be thia this as it may no one can doubt that water at fifty five degrees degress ie is cold enough for health the water that an animal drinks line has to be raised to the temperature of its body eay say one hundred bundred degress and of I 1 course it requires requires much more fuel in food to raise a of water from thirty five degress to one hundred degress than a of fresh water itom from fifty five degrees to one bu hundred adred degrees it the heat beat required to warm the e pit i ifal of water twenty degrees was derived from hay or straw or grain tho the loss would not in many cases be severely felt ae a a matter matte of fact this heat beat is is obtained h from row t the b e consumption of fat and flesh or butter butte rand and cheese this is expensive fuel we are dellaware well wel laware aware t that hat it is not always easy to furnish animals water freo free from ice we fill the trough with wi ith water and the cows and and horses do not drink as much as we expected and the next morning there is a thick layer of ice upon the water in such much a case cue break the ice in as its large pieces as poe possible sible and pull them nut out with a potato book or rake do not leave them to melt in the waiter water pump plenty of fresh water for the animals american Decent december lier |