American Agriculturist, October 4, 1924 
241 
Hens Need Water 
All the Time, And NOT Ice Water 
I T MAY seem a little previous to some 
folks to be talking about watering the 
hens during the winter. But cold weather 
is going to be on us before we know it and 
with eggs bringing the price they are, the 
long-headed poultry man is going to take 
everything into consideration to make 
sure his hens are in shape to keep on 
producing. Hens need water just as 
much as they need mash, grain, green 
food, fresh air and dry, clean quarters. 
Furthermore they need water from the 
time they start work until they hop back 
on the roosts. They need water just as 
much as cows and horses. 
It is needless to say that the water 
fountains, whether they consist only of 
an open pan or some of our more elaborate 
devices, should be kept scrupulously 
clean. Disease is most easily spread 
through a flock of hens by means of an 
infected drinking fountain and therefore 
it is money in a man’s pocket to keep the 
fountains clean. Not only that, but 
hens want water all the time. As I said 
before, from the time they start work in 
the morning it should be before them. 
This holds particularly true of the man 
who is using lights. As soon as the hens 
jump down from the roosts they in¬ 
variably go directly to the mash. They 
don’t eat a whole lot before they want to 
wash it down and unless there is a good 
clean supply of water handy, they are not 
going to get what they actually need. 
Ice Water Not a Winter Drink. 
There is another point that comes up 
right here and it holds true in other places 
besides the henhouse. Dairymen who 
have been through the experience will tell 
you 'what a difference it makes not only 
to have water before the cows at all times, 
but to have the chill taken off slightly. 
This doesn’t mean warm water for the 
animals’ consumption, but it means water 
that has not got that sharp frosty snap 
( to it that sends a chill up and down a 
fellow’s spine when he takes a drink of it. 
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There is something about a drink of ice 
water that seems to paralyze a fellow’s 
insides for a moment. How different it 
is to take a warming drink in the cold 
weather. You can do a whole lot better 
work. 
Now just put yourself in the place of 
the cow who is working every minute of 
the day making milk and imagine the 
difference it means to her. Records 
prove water bowls soon pay for themselves 
when they follow the “open trough in the 
barnyard” method of watering. It holds 
just as true with the hen. If she gets ice 
water, it is going to take a certain amount 
of the food that she eats to overcome that 
chill. If she doesn’t have to overcome v a 
chill that feed will go into eggs and eggs 
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days. So it comes down to pretty near 
a prospect of making money by giving 
the hens water that has the chill off it 
and having it before them all of the time. 
Anyway, who wants ice water in winter? 
I don’t, you don’t (if you’re on the farm), 
cows don’t and neither do the hens.— 
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The Girl at Vacada 
(<Continued from 'page 237) 
and shouldered through. Brushing aside 
the fragments of the frame, he stood with 
legs apart, crouching slightly, gun in 
hand. Furniss whirled to meet him from 
his table seat, his hands in his coat 
pockets. 
“Keep ’em there,” said Jimmy tensely, 
his voice cold and crisp, his eyes icy. 
The girl caught sight of Furniss’s face 
and suddenly remembered what he had 
done with her pistol. She shrilled a 
warning as she thrust the table against 
Furniss just as he pulled the trigger. 
The bullet buried itself in the window 
casing. Jimmy’s return targeted in 
Furniss’ shoulder and he sagged back. 
What Has Happened 
W HEN Jimmy Hughes comes riding 
by the Vacada cemetery and finds 
the sheriff, “Bluff” Furniss, annoying a 
friendless girl whose uncle has just been 
buried, he promptly intervenes, drives 
away the angry sheriff and offers his help 
to the frightened girl. Finding her utterly 
alone in the world and helpless, he chival¬ 
rously suggests that Alice marry him 
simply for his protection, and the tubercular 
“Bee Parson” performs the ceremony, 
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fee from a huge roll of bills. Two hench¬ 
men of Furniss’ are witnesses of the marriage. 
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his arm limp, the pocket smoldering 
from ignition by the powder gas. 
Jimmy covered the distance between 
them in one bound, jamming his gun 
muzzle against the other's stomach while 
his left hand sought and found, first the 
pistol he had given the girl, then Furniss’s 
heavier weapon, sheathed in the shoulder 
holster. 
“If I’d killed you, like I had the right,” 
he said, “there’d have been a fuss over 
who fired that gun. I want a talk with 
you, anyway. You go sit down in that 
chair. Never mind yore shoulder. 
You’ve got a sight too much bad blood 
in you, anyway. Alice, get me that belt 
an’ some line. Furniss, you talk outside 
of answerin’ questions an’ you'll end the 
sentence in hell. Sabe?” 
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