82 THE FARM DAIRY. 



care for and tlie hired man, wto had been told 

 never to let a fresh cow have cold water to 

 drink, was in a hurry to go to church. He gave 

 her cold water to save time and killed the cow. 

 He took the chances and I paid for it by losing 

 an excellent cow. I do not allow cold water to 

 go into the troughs in cold weather, but warm it 

 as described, and when the cows are through 

 drinking the tanks are emptied into the sewer 

 so there is no ice in them when we water next . 

 time. I have heard men argue that warm water 

 is not palatable to stock, but I am sure that 

 does not apply to cows or young stock, as I once 

 saw my youngsters get into a tank to get the 

 warm water that was running out of the pipe 

 on the opposite side of the tank where they 

 could not reach it without getting into the tank. 

 Cows Choose Warm Water. — ^I have also 

 watched my cows in the pasture in summer and 

 fall where I have an eight-inch tile opening into 

 a ditch about forty rods from a stream into 

 which the ditch empties. In warm weather the 

 cows would drink from this open ditch near 

 where it emptied into the stream; but when it 

 became cool in the fall they would drink at the 

 mouth of the tile. In each case they were after 

 the warmest water and to secure it they allowed 

 it to run in the oipen ditch to become warmed 

 by the sun and the hot weather, but in cool 

 weather they took it as it came out of the tile 



