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upon the amount of feed. In this manner the crops are grazed off 

 without waste from tramping. The great advantage of this system of 

 tethering is that the crops can be allowed to grow two or three feet 

 high and yet be eaten down without wasting, thus producing much 

 more feed per acre than can be grown on pasture that necessarily must 

 be kept cropped fairly close. This is the Dane's chief point in the 



Calves tethered in clover. 



economy of feeding during the summer. Practically no grain is fed 

 while coAvs are on grass. A few dairymen feed a little oil cake to 

 their best milkers. 



The usual method of watering is to haul the water in a tank on a 

 low-wheeled, one-horse wagon twice a day to the tethered cows. Doors 

 are placed in the top of this tank at either end, and by proceeding 

 directly across the field along the line of tethered cows, stopping the 

 horse midwav between the tether stakes, two cows can drink at the 



Water supply for tethered cows. Instead of driving cows to water the Dane drives 



the water to tlie cows. 



same time, making the task of watering easy. Some take the cows to 

 the stable to be milked three times a day, and in this case the watering 

 is done there. During the winter the cows are watered by pumping 

 into the cement manger, or at an indoor watering tank. 



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