Clean, Cool Water

Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 43, 2 November 1927, Page 2

Clean, Cool Water

FOR MILCHING COWS Successful dairy farmers know that it pays to provide plenty of good, clean, cool water for milch cows. Eighty-seven per cent of milk is water, as is also nearly three-fourths of a cow’s body. An American college of Agriculture points out that large amounts of water are necessary lor the production of the milk itself, and for the assimilation of the large quantities of food required is in direct proportion to the amount of milk produced. In the summer a cow will want an amount of vfittr iqual to about three times the amount of milk produced. In one case a cow giving 271 b of milk drank 771 b of water Jail)', Ihe same cow drank but ISlb daily when given no milk. Ac iw giving ioolb of milk daily drank more than 2Solb of water. The amount of Wufi r required depends, of corns , on ■the amount of milk the cow is producing, the kind of feed the is receiving, and the weathsr.