Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1874 — Watering Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Watering Cattle.

There are two seasons of the year in which farmers are very liable to give their cattle ■an insufficient* supply of “good water, and two seasons are midsum. mer and midwinter. When the pasture fields are not supplied with running water, the animals in summer are made to drink from stagnant pools, many times as insufficiently supplied as the wells; and in the winter water is given usually but once a day, and the work of watering left to the hired man, who has not always individual interest or patience enough to give cattle time to take water as, slowly as they wish to in very cold weather. There are but few farms unsupplied with springs or creeks; but a good supply of water may be found by digging, and after the supply is obtained, there slieuld be the individual attentiop of the owner given to the matter of seeing that the animals are provided with all that they may desire. Surface water is the best, for it is the provision of nature, and if somewhat impregnated with earth is none the worse, »nd cattle appear to prefer it in this way to the pure. There is a vast difference, however, between roily and stagnant water.—of»o Farmer. Half of all the ordinary diseases would be banished from civilized life, and dyspepsia become almost unknown, ifeverybody would eat but thrice a day at regular times, and not an atom between meals, the intervals being not less than five hours, that being the time required to digest a full meal and pass it out of the stomach.