Show stock must have plenty of water supply should be warmed in cold weather to produce gains thirsty stock do not get rat fat while dairy cows require four pounds or more of water for every pound of milk which they produce where the drinking water Is tempered with a tank heater jaster faster gains and more economical production will result during the winter months says the missouri farmer there Is also a saving in feed for when large quantities of fald id water are consumed at one time considerable heat Is required to bring this up to body temperature nearly every one has seen dairy cows hump up their backs and shiver on a cold day after drinking lee ice water from a stock tank and it Is not to be expected that such an experience Is conducive to profitable production one member of a dairy herd improvement asso association elation foint that his cows made an average gain gaia of 50 56 pounds of butterfat a month following the purchase of a heater at the iowa experiment station it was found that fall pigs given water from an automatic kept from freezing with a kerosene lamp showed an increase in profit of 17 per cent as compared to pigs given water in open troughs callis cains were increased by 5 per cent and the feed requirements were reduced 10 per cent due to water being available at all times stock tanks be banked and covered during the winter and it Is also recommended that gravel or cinders be placed around both the tanks and wa to prevent accidents due to slipping on ley icy yards |