. Biggle cow book;. Cow. [from old catalog]. Chapter IX. FOOD AND DRINK— Continued. You can lead a cow to water, but the other cows may keep her from drinking.—John Tucker. A word as to the drink lof the dairy cow, after which II will return to the food ques- tion. Careful experiments show that cows will sometime^ drink as much as seventy-five to one hundred and fifty pounds of water per day if they have free access to it. The average cow will perhaps drink ninety pounds, or say nearly enough to fill a forty quart can every day. To cut off the water supply is to cut off the milk supply; and ev
. Biggle cow book;. Cow. [from old catalog]. Chapter IX. FOOD AND DRINK— Continued. You can lead a cow to water, but the other cows may keep her from drinking.—John Tucker. A word as to the drink lof the dairy cow, after which II will return to the food ques- tion. Careful experiments show that cows will sometime^ drink as much as seventy-five to one hundred and fifty pounds of water per day if they have free access to it. The average cow will perhaps drink ninety pounds, or say nearly enough to fill a forty quart can every day. To cut off the water supply is to cut off the milk supply; and everybody knows how the master cows intimidate the weaklings, and sometimes frighten them away from the drinking trough. The arguments are good for having water within reach of every cow as she stands in her stall. In this way the timid animal is sure to get her fill. The cow's drinking water must be perfectly pure and preferably cool; cool enough to be palatable and pure because much of the drink goes direct to the milk pail. This is the legitimate way of watering milk. Eighty-seven per cent, of milk being water, let it be good water. The judgment of a cow as to pure drinking water is not to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co.
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