WATERING THE COW.
The cow has about 10 times as delicate a sense of smell as the man, and it is because of this ultra-sensitive-ness she will not eat nor drink" from a ciirty trough. The dairyman may verify this for himself by placing a cow before a bucket of "smelly" water. She will not, drink. Feed left in the trough or manner h distasteful to her, and to toss the new feel on the old is not to make the former appetising, but to cause the rejection of much of the last, deposited. The cow also calls for clean water, at. least twice a day. She knows that dirty water lessens the milk (low. as it lowers the vitality, and wiil have none of it until compelled to, After good food and clean water about all the well-kept cow wants, that her milking machinery may run clearly, is a supply of salt, from which she will take what she reuuires.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 423, 16 December 1911, Page 6
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161WATERING THE COW. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 423, 16 December 1911, Page 6
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