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ONE QUART A DAY MORE PER COW 



0. D. Sheldon, Barrc Plains, Mass. 

 1 know from experience that I get one quart a day more from e\XTy cov\' with water buckets than without 

 them. If I had to turn my herd of 41 cattle out to water every day, I would not keep a cow. It takes too much 

 e xtra help and time and cattle are better off in the stable in ail kinds of weather. It is surprising how much more 

 water they will drink and how often, when they ha\'e it where they can get at it any time they want it." 



COWS DRINK 50', MORE WATER — AND GIVE 10 to 20 LBS. 

 MORE BUTTERFAT A YEAR 



L. P. Zimmerman, Waseca, Minnesota, October 9, 1917: 



"I believe it my duty to tell you briefly the value I attach to James cups for watering cows. 1 ne\er used a 

 tank heater and never watered outside in winter, as I used a watering manger before I put in water cups, I have 

 always been particular never to gi\'e my cows freezing water. The great ad\-antage of drinking cups over a water 

 manger is that you are sure every cow has all the water she wants ail the time. 



With the old manger system I pumped on an average of one hour per day in winter. With the cups I pump 

 ! ' J hours a day to supply about the same amount of stock, using the same pump and engine. Hence. I figure 

 the extra one-half hour's pumping represents the extra water 30 head of stock drink by having all the water they 

 want all the time. All this watering is now done automatically. Anyone who has done it can tell you it is quite 

 a job to keep a manger in fit shape for an animal to drink from. 



I have cow test records of a cow testing association for several years, and while it is hard to say that such and 

 such a difference is due to any one thing, I feel that 10 to 20 lbs. of butterfat a year is conser\ative as an increase 

 due to better watering. " 



MORE MILK THAN EVER BEFORE 



J. B. Cain. Glen Beulah, Wis., March 5, 1917: 



1 am getting more milk now than ever before from the same number of cows and attend to them in about 

 three hours less time per day, owing to the convenience of the barn. 1 feel safe to say James drinking cups will 

 more than pay for themsel\-cs in one year's time in additional amount of milk, 5ay nothing about the time 

 saved. 



INCREASE OF 160 LBS. MILK DAILY 



J. P. Tuck, Supt,, Jelke Dairy Farm, Dundee, III., Oct. 15, 1917; 



"I would not try to make milk without James drinking cups, as I know that last winter our cows averaged 

 o\er 2 ibs. of milk each per day better than when we watered twice a day in the feed trough, because the cows 

 can drink whenever they want to. You can go in our barn any time during the day or night and you will always 

 find some cows drinking. 



I feel safe to say that our cows paid in full for the cost of installing the drinking cups for our 80-cow barn with 

 the extra milk I got during the first two months after we installed the drinking cups. 



Furthermore, I may say that we watered our cows for some time from a large tank in the cow yard. This tank 

 was heated by a tank stove; on cold days some of the cows would not even take a drink unless we drove them up 

 to the tank. Of course, we did not make near so much milk as we do since the drinking cups are in, 



"A MARKED INCREASE IN MILK" 



Robert G. Morey, Genesee, Wis., March 1, 1917: 



"We had the opportunity of testing the increased flow of milk gained by the installation of James individual 

 water cups and found that they made a marked increase over the former way of watering the cows at regular inter- 

 vals. We believe a cow, like a human being, wants to be privileged to drink water when she feels like it, 



25 COWS — 40 LBS. MORE MILK THE FIRST DAY 



Wm. T. Field, Civil Engineer, Watertown, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1916: 



"Mr. D. H. Rogers of Antwerp, N. Y., who recently installed James barn equipment, is very much pleased 

 with his selection. His stock shows improvement and partly due to the installation of the James watering system 

 his daily supply has steadily increased, although all the cows but one in his dairy are strippers. The first day after 

 the installation of the complete outfit, with approximately 25 head, his milk increased 40 pounds." 



INCREASES MILK FLOW 



Emil H. Mehne, Almond, Wis,, February 23, 1917: 



"I like my barn very much, especially the James watering system. It certainly saves fuel and labor and 

 also increases the milk flow." 



25'"o MORE MILK 



W. H. Mathei, Agricultural Advisor for Florence Farm, Florence, Wis., Feb. 20, 1917: "James Dairy Barn 

 Equipment has without a doubt a great influence on the cows and their milk flow, which increased rapidly and stead- 

 ily. The milk yield increased about 25 per cent and is still increasing, which I think is mostly due to the James 

 individual water buckets, which furnish the cows with slightly warmed water. 



Mr. Mathei. writing in the October 1917 magazine "System on the Farm," says: "In order to find out just 

 what these labor-saving devices meant to us in terms of dollars and cents, 20 cows were kept under constant super- 

 vision. They were placed first in an old barn, then transferred to the one which was newjy equipped. Here are the 

 figures on the amounts of milk obtained under both conditions: 



