CARE OF THE COW 



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The wise dairyman will provide his cows with 

 clean, palatable food which they will eat with 

 relish rather than with stale food. He will pro- 

 vide them with warm water to drink in winter, 

 rather than ice-cold water, because he feels he 

 would not like to drink such water himself. He 

 will soon learn that it is profitable for him to 



Fig. 42. Daisy Grace DeKol. 

 Good care enabled this cow to become one of the world's record 



cows. 



warm the water rather than to send them to the 

 pond where he has chopped a hole in the ice. 

 Experiment stations have proven that the shrink- 

 age in the milk flow is considerable when warm 

 water is not supplied. 



Dehorning. When cows were still in their 

 wild state, nature provided them with horns to 

 protect themselves and their offspring. How- 



