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Dairy Handbook - Chapter 1

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match the following

a)

1611

1.

First cows arrived at Jamestown colony

b)

1624

2.

First cows arrived at Plymouth colony

c)

1810

3.

First Dairy co-op organized in CT

d)

1851

4.

First commercial cheese factory in NY

e)

1856

5.

First patent for condensed milk.

2.

Match the following

a)

1856

1.

First commercial butter factory in NY

b)

1857

2.

First successful condensery, Gail Borden

c)

1862

3.

Morrill Act - created land grant college

d)

1868

4.

American Jersey Cattle Club founded

e)

1877

5.

American Guernsey Cattle Club founded

3.

Match the following

a)

1878

1.

Centrifugal cream separator by de Laval

b)

1880

2.

Brown Swiss Breeders Association

c)

1884

3.

Milk bottle invented by Thatcher in NY

d)

1885

4.

Hoard's Dairyman magazine published

e)

1885

5.

Holstein-Friesian Association of America

4.

Match the following

a)

1886

1.

Automatic bottle filler & capper patent

b)

1887

2.

Hatch Act - Ag experiment station

c)

1890

3.

Babcock Test for butterfat

d)

1895

4.

Pulsator invented

e)

1904

5.

American Dairy Goat Association

5.

Match the following

a)

1905

1.

First cow testing association in MI

b)

1906

2.

American Dairy Science Association

c)

1906

3.

First National Dairy show in Chicago

d)

1906

4.

Brown Swiss recognized as official breed

e)

1906

5.

National Dairy Council organized

6.

Match the following

a)

1914

1.

Smith-Lever Act - established Extension

b)

1916

2.

National Milk Producers Federation found

c)

1917

3.

Journal of Dairy Science published

d)

1922

4.

Capper-Volstead Act - cooperatives

e)

1927

5.

Cow Testing Association renamed DHIA

7.

Match the following

a)

1931

1.

Hoard's Dairyman judging contest began

b)

1932

2.

First plastic coated paper milk carton

c)

1935

3.

National Cooperative Sire Proving Progra

d)

1936

4.

First Dairy cattle AI org in Denmark

e)

1937

5.

First list of sires proven in DHIA

8.

Match the following

a)

1937

1.

Federal Ag Marketing Agreement for milk

b)

1938

2.

AI began in US, First AI cooperative

c)

1938

3.

Bulk tanks first used

d)

1940

4.

American Dairy Association

e)

1940

5.

Purebred Dairy Cattle Association

9.

Match the following

a)

1942

1.

National Association of Animal Breeders

b)

1943

2.

PDCA Dairy Cow Unified Scorecard

c)

1945

3.

NRC Nutrient Tables published

d)

1949

4.

National Dairy Shrine founded

e)

1951

5.

Computer used to calculate DHIA records

10.

Match the following

a)

1951

1.

First US young sire sampling program

b)

1951

2.

First successful Embryo transfer

c)

1951

3.

First commercial milk replacer to calves

d)

1953

4.

Frosty, first calf from frozen semen bor

e)

1955

5.

Flavor control equipment introduced comm

11.

Match the following

a)

1960

1.

National Mastitis Council

b)

1964

2.

Plastic milk jug

Red and White Dairy Asso

c)

1965

3.

National Dairy Herd Information Associat

d)

1967

4.

World Dairy Expo first show

e)

1974

5.

Nutrition labeling of fluid milk began

12.

Match the following

a)

1983

1.

INTERBULL developed

b)

1989

2.

Animal model first used for genetic eval

c)

1993

3.

Bovine Somatotropin approved

d)

1994

4.

Holstein-Friesian Assoc changes name

e)

1995

5.

MACE for bulls implemented

13.

Match the following

a)

1998

1.

Dairy Calf and Heifer Association

b)

2000

2.

First US commercial robotic milker in WI

c)

2002

3.

North American Dairy Challenge establish

d)

2003

4.

Sexed semen becomes available

e)

2006

5.

Dairy Cattle Reproductive Council

14.

Match the following

a)

2009

1.

Unified scorecard revised,

b)

2013

2.

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding publish

c)

2016

3.

PDCA Showmanship card revised

d)

2021

4.

8th edition of NRC Tables

e)

2023

5.

Dairy Calf and Heifer pub 4th edition