Cranberries Roll!
Dairy Rocks!
Dairy Farm Fun!
Sliding Sap!
Bzz...Honey!
100
Cranberries grow in a bed or a _____.
What is a bog
100
Which breed of cow produces the most milk and is often seen on Wisconsin dairy farms?
What is a Holstein
100
Why do farmers use modern machinery to milk cows instead of milking each cow by hand?
Machines take less time. It takes one person one hour to milk 6 cows by hand. If a famer uses a machine in a milking parlor (barn) to milk the cows one person can milk about 100 cows in an hour!
100
Maple syrup is made from the sap of which plant?
What is a maple tree. Remember: trees must be old enough and large enough to be tapped - otherwise they might die.
100
This animal makes honey.
What is a honey bee.
200
This important discovery helped make cranberry harvesting a lot easier. Hint: Cranberries don't sink, they _____.
What is float
200
Which produces more milk a male cow or a female cow?
What is the female cow - A male cow can't make any milk! Only girls (females) can have babies. Remember a cow must be about 2 years old and have had a baby to produce milk.
200
Why do farmers wash the cow's teats and udder before milking? Give 2 reasons for doing this.
The farmer washes the cow's teats and udder for two reasons. The first reason is to clean the area and kill any germs/bacteria. The second reason is that by touching and rubbing the udders it sends a message to the cow to release the milk from the udder into the teats so it can be taken out.
200
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 or 50 degrees during the day.
200
There is/are ___ queen bee(s) in each hive.
What is 1. There are up to 50,000 worker bees in each colony and only 1 queen bee.
300
95% of the cranberries that are harvested are turned into what 3 things? Name at least 2 things. Remember only 5% of the cranberry crop is dry harvested and sold as fresh berries during the fall.
What is cranberry juice, cranberry sauce, or craisins (dried cranberries)
300
How many times a day must a cow be milked?
What is 2 or 3 times a day
300
How does the milk get from the farm's cooling tank (bulk tank) to the milk processing plant?
What is by a refrigerated tanker truck - The truck driver pumps the milk from the farmer's bulk tank into the refrigerated tanker truck. Then he or she drives to the milk processing plant.
300
40 gallons of sap boils down to ___ gallons of syrup.
What is 1 gallon.
300
Honey is made of _________ taken from flowers.
What is nectar.
400
The cranberry was named after a bird that the blossom resembled. The name of the bird is the _____.
What is a crane
400
What must a cow eat to be able to produce milk?
What is water and grass/animal feed
400
The milk is heated at the dairy plant to 161 degrees Fairhenheit to kill bacteria. Then it is quickly cooled down. What is this HEATING process called?
What is pasteurization
400
The sap that drips into the collection buckets is _________ in color.
What is clear (or white).
400
A person who raises bees and collects their honey is called a ____________.
What is a beekeeper. Quick fact: There are 70,000 colonies of honeybees in Wisconsin! That's a lot of bees!
500
How do you know if a cranberry is a good berry or a bad berry? Hint: The berry is given 7 chances to _____.
What is bounce!
500
Is the temperature of the milk freezing cold, cold, or a little bit warm when it leaves the cow's body and travels to the holding tank?
What is a little bit warm
500
While the milk is still warm from pasteurization and before being cooled, the milk is forced through a screen with tiny, tiny holes. As the milk goes through these tiny holes, the fat in the milk is broken into tiny pieces. This keeps the milk mixed up so it does not separate in the milk carton. What is this process of BREAKING UP THE MILK called?
What is homogonization
500
The process for making maple syrup was discovered by _________________. (Europeans, Native Americans, colonists or Johnny Appleseed)
What are Native Americans. Remember: The Native Americans were the first people to live in North America. They lived for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Native Americans were the ones that taught the European settlers how to turn maple sap into maple syrup.
500
A hive can produce up to ___ pounds of honey each day.
What is 7 pounds. This is more than the bees need so the extra is taken and bottled for human use.
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