ILLINOIS STATE DAI HYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 11^ 



Mr. Coolidge: What would be the effect on dairy cattle and cow,-?-, 

 giving milk, if in the heat of the day they would go to a pool and stand ira 

 the water? Would it have any effect on the quality of the milk^and the? 

 quantity they would give? 



A. That would depend on the volume of water, and whether th& 

 water was flowing so that the impurities of the droppings were carried^ 

 away. If the water was running it might take the impurities away, but 

 if the water was stagnant water and the cows drank it, you would have 

 trouble. 



Mr. Coolidge: This was quite a large creek on a farm where wera 

 taken several cows I sold at one time. Some time after the sale the- 

 farmer complained of the quality of the milk the cows were giving and 1 

 went out to look at the cows at 11 o'clock in the morning one day in July. 

 The cows were out in the water, with just their heads out of water. The 

 farmer said they would stand uni.il 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 

 then come out and feed. I examine d the cows that night and I was sur- 

 prised, their hides felt like sole leather. They did not appear like the? 

 same cattle I had sold, and I could not believe they were the ones, and I 

 did not know what to make of it. [ thought the man was ruining hi^ 

 cattle by allowing them to stand in that lake. 



A. I think you are right. They ought to have been feeding. 



Mr. Coolidge: They were entirely under water except their heads T 



A. They ought to have been out getting feed. They were standi^ 

 themselves by remaining in the water when they should have been feed- 

 ing. 



