Show COWS NEED WARM i DRINK IN WINTER successful winter dairying calls for an n adequate all supply aply of water at a temperature pera ture that will not paralyze the entire dige five tract of the cow when she lie drinks water Is equally as important as feed says dr C Q 11 ralle chief of the dairy division of tile university of minnesota A cow cov milking 30 pounds daily drinks close to pounds of water c ciery ery 24 hours sometimes watering the lie cows means turning them out of the barn once a day to drink what they can stand of ice fee cold water can we imagine a cow which weighs round around 1100 pounds drinking a pounds or nearly one tenth tenta of her weight of tee ice water at once of course she will not do it and consequently will not give her owner SO 30 pounds of milk even though she has the ability to produce this much a and id has feed enough as well the milk flow may be cut down dov quicker by a lack of water or by the use of ice fee water than by poor feed individual drinking cups in my judg mient pay more dividends to the user than almost anything else to in the line of modern barn equipment even it if the water Is not warmed tn in the cups the cow will take such small amounts at a time so long as it Is above freezing freeing that no harm barm results from drinking it cold if cows must be watered from 11 tank outdoors and under conditions which mean lee ice water it will pay to install a water healer beater of some kind it Is much cheaper to warm the water with fuel than by giving the cow extra grain to warm it within tier her body |