Three Cow Views

Wallace Stevens wrote "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"—
As for thirteen ways of looking at a cow—( This required some research!)

1. The first cow in America arrived in the Jamestown colony in 1611.

2. Cows drink about a bathtub full of water and eat around 40 pounds of food a day.

3. Cows have 32 teeth

4. The average body temperature of a cow is 101.5°F.

5. In 1856, Gail Borden invented the condensed milk process.

6." Robotic milkers, which work best with a herd of about 60 cows or fewer, have been popular in Europe and Canada for about 10 years."

7." The Cows were a noise rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998."

8. "In Neillsville, Wisconsin stands Chatty Belle, the world's largest talking cow. Visitors can press the button mounted on Chatty's base and Chatty will tell them many things -- like that a cow her size would produce over 270 pounds of milk a day."

9.The most gargantuan cow is undoubtedly Salem Sue, in New Salem, ND. She stands 38 feet tall on School Hill, the only hill in sight, overlooking I-94. Sue stares intently over the flat fields that stretch to the horizon, her reinforced fiberglass skin taut and shiny."

10. MADRID, Spain - A group of women wants equality in Pamplona’s San Fermin bull running festival — they are demanding cow runs.
“If the boys run ahead of the bulls, we (women) have to run with the cows. It’s pure logic,” said a tongue-in-cheek petition on a Spanish student Web site, www.estudiln.net.

11. Manners aside, getting cows to burp less can help reduce global warming.

12. “Couples on Wheels” or COWs is the Wisconsin tandem club.

13. " As reported in the London Times Feb. 2005, "Webster and his colleagues have documented how cows within a herd form smaller friendship groups of between two and four animals with whom they spend most of their time, often grooming and licking each other. They will also dislike other cows and can bear grudges for months or years."