01/12/2024
National Milk Day was yesterday!
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Interesting Facts about Milk and Cows
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* It used to take a person 1 hour to milk 6 cows by hand. Today, a person can milk 100 cows in an hour with modern machines.
* Before modern milk delivery, when people traveled and wanted milk, they had to take their cows with them.
* The main breeds of dairy cows are Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey, Brown Swiss and Ayrshire.
* There are about 11 million cows in America. They will make about 57.5 billion quarts of milk this year.
* It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
* It takes 21.2 pounds of whole milk to make one pound of butter.
* Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor.
* George Washington enjoyed ice cream so much he ran up a $200 ice cream bill one summer.
* The milk mustache advertising campaign was launched in 1995.
* Cows have an acute sense of smell – they can smell something up to 6 miles away!
* The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found in the grass the cows graze on.
* An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
* Milk is better for cooling your mouth after eating spicy food than water. Milk products contain casein, a protein that cleanses burning taste buds.
* Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
* There are approximately 340-350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
* Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day – the equivalent of a bathtub full of water.
* The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk containers were introduced in 1964.
* Average U.S. cow produces 53 lb of milk per day, or 6.2 gallons.
* Average cow eats … 20 lb hay, 20 lb corn silage, 10-20 lb corn, 6-12 lb supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals).
* Consumer spending on dairy products is $74.6 billion dollars annually about 1.33% of personal income. 12.27 % of the food dollar is spent on dairy products.
* The U.S. enjoys an average of 48 pints of ice cream per person, per year, more than any other country. Maybe we should make ice cream the fifth food group!
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