The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-08
THE FARMING WORLD.
GOOD WATER.

~ Importance Of Having Il In Every
Department. OF the Dairy.
a dairy must have good water in all
10 departments, or it can not thrive.
5000 implies that the water is chem.
.cally pure-not simply pure looking to
1 the eye. The drinking water Of dairy
ssttie should be pellucid enough to sup
port mountain trout. and If you haven't
got It meandering across your fields a.
/ rivulet, or gushing forth from your
soil as crystalline spring. tap the bow
Dis OF Mother Earth with an anger and
sat1ate your flock from the artificial
fountain. In discussing dairy needs,
the subject Of good water can not be
worn threadbare, and its claims need to
DC Kept before the producers eye till
they receive the recognition their mer-
Us warrant. 1t is now the proper sea-
son OF the year to put into physical exc
sutton many of the mental projects rip
ened by winters thought, and if you
nave In the past resolved to provide inn
proved drinking facilities for your cows,
carry the plan unswervingly to compile
tion. @.-
II you have = never-failing brook rip
ing through your pasture lands,
fortunate are ye, for nature in such =
guise can not, except through spring,
be improved upon. You should, how
ever. know something of the condition
of the stream above your farm, for it
may be polluted by offensive drainage,
capable of effecting an insidious poison
on cattle and milk. A spring with an
everlasting dow, or several Of them,
form the keystone to an arch of
naturally perfect conditions for good
dairy farm. If the spring is at loftier
altitude than the residence and barns,
80 much the better, for it can be piped
to the messuage for domestic needs.
But whether the fountain head be low
or high. copious share of its yield
must be left in the grazing lot for the
refreshment of its mich tenants. Be-
cause you have natural vein of water
gushing to the surface in the pasture,
do not imagine that the cows needs are
sutf1ced. Cattle will soon mako of the
best spring mud wallow, II you allow
1t to exist in a virgin state. Excavate
the earth about the fount lin head, wall
it up by putting in large tile or .
margin of stones, and then, covering the
topso that the cattle can no. demoralize
your work, conduct the flow of water by
a section of pipe or pump log to a water.
ing tub placed close at hand.
This mode, in effect is the only right
way to water stock from spring. and it
Is especially applicable to dairy cows,
because we want to insure quietness and
ease in their every movement, which is
facilitated when they have plenty OF
stamping ground about high circular
watering trough. The weaker and more
timid brute generally receives cruel horn
thrusts whenever the common herd is
congregated in cramped quarters. 1t is
also most essential to the dairy in the
matter of cleanliness and health, for
cows drinking from mud puddle pol
luted by their own excrement degrade
the wholesomeness of milk to low lev
ell. If your farm is so arid that you are
obliged to use we'll water for stock, by
all means harness the wind with good
mill to pump it for them. Finally,
don't permit a COW on your place to have
access to swale, slough or any clay
hole where surface water has collected.
If such marsh places can not be drained
they can be fenced of, and by the wise
act you will be debarred from one prom
inent source of tainted and poisoned
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