Cranberry Roll
Cranberries grow in a bed or a_________
What is a bog
Which breed of cow produces the most milk and is often seen on Wisconsin dairy farms?
What is Holstein
why do farmers use modern day machinery to milk cows instead of milking each cow by hand?
Machines take less time. It takes 1 person one hour to milk 6 cows by hand, If a farmer uses a machine in a milking parlor (barn) to milk the cows one person can milk about 100 cows in an hour.
Maple syrup is made from the sap of which plant?
What is the maple tree. Remember...trees must be old enough and large enough to be tapped- otherwise they might die.
This animal makes honey?
What is a honey bee
This important discovery helped make cranberry harvesting easier. Hint: Cranberries don't sink, they_____.
What is Float.
Which produces more milk a male cow or a female cow?
What is a female cow. The male cow can't make any milk!! A cow must be about 2 years old and have had a baby to produce milk.
Why do farmers wash the cows teats and udder before milking? Give 2 reasons for doing this?
1. To clean the area and kill any germs/bacteria. 2. By touching and rubbing the uddersit sends a message to the cow to release the milk from the udder into the teats so it can be taken out.
Maple sap can be tapped during this season (summer, fall, winter or spring)
What is spring? In order for the sap to run quickly, the temperature must be below freezing at night and 40-50 degrees during the day.
There is/are_____queen bee(s) in each hive.
What is 1. There are up to 50,000 worker bees in each colony and 1 queen bee.
95% of the cranberries that are harvested are turned into what 3 things?
What is cranberry juice, cranberry sauce and craisins (dried cranberries) Only 5% of the cranberry crop is dry harvested, and sold as fresh cranberriesduring the fall.
How many times a day must a cow be milked?
What is 2 or 3 times a day.
How does the milk get from the farmer's cooling tank (bulk tank) to the milk processing plant?
By a refrigerated tanker truck. The truck driver pumps the milk from the farmer's milk tank into the refrigerator tanker truck. Then he drives to the milk processing plant.
40 gallons of sap boils down to _____ gallons of syrup.
What is 1 gallon
Honey is made from _____ taken from flowers.
What is nectar
The cranberry was named after a bird that the blossom resembled. The name of that bird is____________
What is Crane
What must a cow eat to be able produce milk?
What is water and grass/ animal feed.
The milk is heated at the dairy plant to 161 degrees ferrhenheit to kill bacteria. Then it is quickly cooled down. What is the heating process called?
What is pasteurization.
Sap that drips into the collection bucket is ____ in color.
What is clear (or white)
the person who raises bees and collects their honey is called a ______.
What is a bee keeper. There are 70,000 colonies of honey bees in Wisconsin. That's alot of bees.
How do you know if a cranberry is a good berry or a bad berry?
The berry is given 7 chances to bounce.
Is the temperature of the milk freezing cold, cold or a little bit warm when it leaves the cows body and travels to the holding tank?
What is a little bit warm
While the milk is still warm from the pasteurization and before being cooled, the milk is forced through a screen with tiny , tiny holes. As the milk goes through the tiny holes , the fat in the milk is broken into tiny peices. This keeps the milk mixed up so it doesn't separate in the milk cartons. What is the process of Breaking up the Milk called?
What is homogonization
The process for making maple syrup was discovered by_______. (Europeans, Native Americans, colonist or Johnny Appleseed?)
Who is Native Americans. The native americans were the 1st people to live in North America,. They lived for thousands of years before the 1st Europeans arrived. The Native Americans were the ones who taught the European settlers how to turn Maple sap into syrup.
A hive can produce up to ____ pounds of honey each year.
What is 7 pounds. This is more than the bees need so the rest is taken and bottled for human use