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Now a cow IS not a camel — and you can't water her like one without 

 cutting down her milk production. 



She has not the ability to store water until she needs it for digestion of 

 food. She drinks just about as much as she needs at the time she is drink- 

 ing. You can't put her at an icy trough and get her to drink to supply her 

 future needs. 



You might just as well cut down on your feed as to fail to provide your 

 cows with all the water they want exactly when they want it — not hours 

 after they want it, nor the next morning, but exactly when digestion demands 

 it. A cow to produce the best results should never be allowed to get very 

 thirsty. Water should be before her where she can drink whenever she wants 

 it, as much or as little as she wants day or night. For cows will drink almost 

 as much at night as in the day. 



TTie cow that is turned out to drink in the trough in the yard once or 

 twice a day, is thirsty most of the time. This means that her digestion is 

 demanding water to digest food — to make milk — is demanding a little water 

 at a time, an exact amount for every pound of food that enters her stomach. 

 Not having the water when she needs it, she is not able to make as much 

 milk. 



The reason she drinks so heartily at the trough when she does, is because 

 she has been thirsty so long — but the water she drinks then is of no use in 

 digesting food taken into her stomach during the thirsty spell. Her digestion 

 has done the best it could without water; the milk-making elements which 

 have been wasted for lack of water is pure loss. 



And the thirsty cow turned out to water — how often we see her shiver- 

 ing through a cold unsatisfying drink of icy water, either drinking too little 

 because the water is icy cold, or because of great thirst drinking so much ice 

 water that she must use expensive feed to warm herself again. It is a money- 

 losing proposition to turn feed into heat which, under proper conditions, would 

 have gone to the making of milk. 



Stop the Winter Slump in Milk Yields 



James drinking cups will stop the winter slump in your milk yield. Cold 

 weather thirst — the great thief of the winter milk-pail — vanishes completely 

 when James drinking cups are installed. 



When your herd is watered the James Way, each of your cows can 

 drink whenever she likes, as much as she likes, at a temperature of water 

 that is most satisfactory, at any minute of the day or night. 



Instead of being herded out twice a day to shiver through an unsatisfying 

 drink of ice water, your cows drink to their heart's content right in the warm 

 security and contentment of their stalls any time that their thirst prompts them 

 to do so. 



