FARM DAIRYING 



up a heavy milk-flow must have all the water she 

 can drink. Boutsje drank two hundred pounds, 

 equal to two large clothes-boilersful, the day she 

 gave ninety-six pounds of milk. The average milk- 

 ing cow will take from eighty to one hundred 

 pounds of water per day. We should induce the 

 cow to drink plenty. Tests have proved that 

 the milk-flow can be stimulated more by get- 

 ting the cow to drink copiously than by tempting 

 her to eat beyond her usual. The ideal way is to 

 have water always before her. If this is not con- 

 venient, she should get water twice a day. It is 

 poor economy to have to drive the cows some 

 distance, often down a slippery path, to drink 

 from a frozen-over creek. They become so 

 chilled, and the water is so icy, that they take just 

 as little as they can. Dairying will never prove 

 profitable under such conditions. 



The water should, by some mechanical means, 

 be conveyed into the stable, or to a trough in some 

 convenient sheltered place. Some farmers have a 

 large tank in the stable supplied by means of a 

 windmill, with water from a well. The water from 

 the tank is never so cold as that directly from the 

 well, owing to its being in a warmer atmosphere 

 before being used. 



There are objections to the trough before the 



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