Show many dairymen overlook water supply in winter the average dairyman overlooks the water ter supply for his cows during the w winter inter months and in doing so he overlooks a nice profit and lowers the production of tits his cows the dairy cow will drink pounds of water dally daily if it Is located where she can get it at least twice dally and it Is not too cold A fresh cow will drink three or four times ns as much as a stripper or dry cow in cold winter weather a cow will not drink that much water if turned out but once a day and she has to walk to a pond or tank to drink furthermore when a large amount agouni of cold water Is drunk in cold weather it must be raise to the body temperature of the cow and to td do this the cow burns the feed nutrients which were intended to produce milk and maintain her body |