I4O PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



When kicking becomes chronic, so that the cow will 

 yield to neither of the above treatments, she may as 

 well be considered as a hard case and disposed of. 



WARM WATER FOR COWS 



Having water before each cow in the stable is 

 desirable. In most places it is practicable. The 

 gain in milk will pay heavy interest on the money 

 invested in the cost of the appliance. When this is 

 not practicable, it will pay in a large dairy to have 

 a small boiler from which steam pipes pass into 

 the trough to raise the temperature. 



In the celebrated dairy districts in the town of 

 Bovina, Delaware County, N. Y., a number of these 

 appliances are used. The dairymen of that section 

 find that warming the drinking water of the cows 

 materially increases the flow of milk. A useful 

 appliance where water is kept always before the 

 cows is a dish covered by a board that drops over 

 the bucket. The cow raises it when she desires to 

 drink. When the water is at the proper temperature 

 the cows drink many times a day and but a small 

 quantity at a time. No cow can both digest her 

 food to warm ice water and at the same time 

 convert it into milk and butter fat. 



COST OF PRODUCING MILK 



If one thousand farmers were asked what it costs 

 to produce a hundredweight of milk or a pound of 

 butter, it is doubtful if twenty could give an in- 

 telligent reply. The cost of butter depends upon 

 so many conditions that each case must needs be 

 answered by itself. In a well-kept herd of specially 



