354 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



given them where they stand in the stall, or near by, so 

 guarded that they may drink unmolested. 



In summer, if possible, water should be furnished in 

 each pasture field. Cows should not be required to travel 

 for it, because they will not do this on a hot day, unless 

 very thirsty, and consequently they will not drink as much 

 as a large yield of milk requires. When a farm affords a 

 small, running stream, this should be conducted into every 

 pasture field, if practicable, or every pasture should be 

 connected with the stream. Or, where a spring is located 

 upon an elevated part of the farm, the water from it should 

 be carried in pipes to each pasture field, and caused to run 

 into troughs which are always kept full. And, where 

 water can be had by sinking wells, these should be fur- 

 nished in each field, and the water pumped by wind or 

 hand, so as to give the cows free access to water at all 

 times. The cost of sinking these wells will often be repaid 

 in a single season. Some dairymen are content to drive 

 their cows to water, even in summer, only once per day. 

 But such dairymen are destined to constant disappoint- 

 ment in the profits of the dairy. 



To induce cows to drink often, some of the most suc- 

 cessful dairymen, where water was pumped by hand into 

 large troughs, put from K to 1 Ib. per cow of oil-meal into 

 the water-trough daily, with K oz. of salt, and, stirring 

 this well in the water, gives it a taste so much relished by 

 the cows that they come often and sip a few quarts. By 

 this means they were not only induced to drink much 

 water, but the small amount of oil-meal assisted in in- 

 creasing the yield of milk. Bran or middling may be used 

 instead ; and we can assure every dairyman that the cows 

 will return this liberality, with compound interest, in milk. 



We have, perhaps, elsewhere, sufficiently urged the im- 

 portance of giving cows, in winter, water of moderate 

 temperature. It is doing violence to the system of the 



