"Cows can go up stairs, but not down stairs." That's according to the Mobile Dairy Classroom,www.milkcow.org, and one of many fun facts in honor of June as National Dairy Month.
Cows can smell something as far as 6 miles away.
Every day, cows eat more than 90 pounds of food.
Cows drink more than 35 gallons of water daily — sometimes double that in the summer.
Cows chew at least 50 times a minute.
It takes 340 squirts of milk to fill a milk pail.
An inventor created the first milk bottle in 1884.
Plastic milk containers debuted in 1964.
Milk is approximately 97 percent water.
One gallon of ice cream equals 12 pounds of milk.
One pound of cheese equals 10 pounds of milk.
One pound of butter equals 21.1 pounds of milk.
America's favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year, Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese, which equals more than a ton in a lifetime.
Source: Mobile Dairy Classroom, www.milkcow.org
Cows can smell something as far as 6 miles away.
Every day, cows eat more than 90 pounds of food.
Cows drink more than 35 gallons of water daily — sometimes double that in the summer.
Cows chew at least 50 times a minute.
It takes 340 squirts of milk to fill a milk pail.
An inventor created the first milk bottle in 1884.
Plastic milk containers debuted in 1964.
Milk is approximately 97 percent water.
One gallon of ice cream equals 12 pounds of milk.
One pound of cheese equals 10 pounds of milk.
One pound of butter equals 21.1 pounds of milk.
America's favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year, Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese, which equals more than a ton in a lifetime.
Source: Mobile Dairy Classroom, www.milkcow.org
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