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with my experience. I once saw some of my 

 young stock get into a water tank to reach the 

 warm water that was running in from a pipe 

 on the opposite side of the tank where they 

 could not reach it without getting into the 

 tank. I have also watched my cows in the pas- 

 ture in the summer and fall. I have an eight- 

 inch tile discharging into an open ditch forty 

 rods from a stream into which it empties. In 

 warm weather the cows will drink from this 

 open ditch near its outlet into the stream 

 where the water is warmer than at the mouth 

 of the tile. But as soon as it gets cold in the 

 autumn the cows go to the mouth of the tile 

 where the water is the warmest. In both cases 

 they appear to prefer to drink at the point 

 where the water is the warmest. 



I believe it is more economical to warm the 

 water before the cow drinks it, with coal at 

 $3 or $4 per ton, than it is to warm it with 

 hay and grain after she drinks. Hay and grain 

 do not get low-priced enough in Northern 

 Illinois to be used as fuel. I have seen the 

 time when corn was a more economical fuel 

 than coal, but coal is lower and corn higher 

 than at that time. We do not burn it any 

 more. 



Watering in the stable. — I have never wa- 

 tered my cows in the stable. I have thought 

 considerable about it. I have seen a number 



