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- All cows are females.
Males are called bulls.
- It takes 29 cups
of milk to make 1 pound of butter.
- Home delivery
of milk (i.e. the milkman) started in 1942 as a war conservation
measure.
- A cow can't give
milk until she has given birth to a calf.
- Homogenized milk
was introduced in 1919 on the East Coast.
- A cow drinks over
117 gallons of water in a week.
- Brown's Velvet
Dairy was founded in 1905. It still operates in its original
location.
- The average cow
produces 90 glasses of milk each day or about 200,000 glasses
of milk throughout her life.
- By 1973, only
10% of Americans still received home milk delivery. By 1995,
only 1% of American homes were still visited by the milkman.
- Brown's Velvet
Dairy is the only dairy in the City of New Orleans.
- A cow's udder can
hold 25 - 50 pounds of milk.
- The national program
of picturing lost children on milk cartons began on January
1, 1985. Within one month, over 400 dairies were participating.
- Cows were first
brought to Plymouth Colony in 1624.
- American dairy
farmers produced 156.6 billion pounds of milk in 1997.
Sources: Brown's Dairy, Dairy Management
Inc., www.WhyMilk.com, www.got-milk.com
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All I Need
to Know About Life, I learned from a Cow
1. Wake up
in a happy moood.
2. Don’t cry over spilled milk.
3. When chewing your cud, remember:
There’s no fat, no calories, no cholesterol, and no taste!
4. The grass is green on the other side of the fence.
5. Turn the udder cheek and mooo-ve on.
6. Seize every opportunity and milk it for all it’s worth!
7. It’s better to be seen and not herd.
8. Honor thy fodder and thy mother and all your udder relatives.
9. Never take any bull from anybody.
10. Always let them know who’s the bossy.
11. Stepping on cowpies brings good luck.
12. Black and white is always an appropriate fashion statement.
13. Don’t forget to cow-nt your blessings every day.
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