AGRICULTURE FACTS

HORSE FACT

• Horses produce approximately 10 gallons of saliva a day.

COW FACT

• The average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day.

PIG FACT

• In 2012, a farmer in Oregon, America, was eaten by his pigs after having a heart attack and falling into their enclosure. By the time a concerned relative came looking for him, only his dentures were left.

CORN FACT

• One bushel of corn contains about 72,800 kernels and weighs 56 pounds.

COMBINE FACT

• The combine was invented in the United States by Hiram Moore in 1834.

GOAT FACT

• Coffee was first discovered when goat herders noticed the goats acting very energetic after nibbling on the coffee beans.

LARGEST PIG EVER

• The Liaoning Provincial Agricultural Museum is appealing to the Guinness Book of Records to recognise a 900 kg (1984 pounds) pig which died on February 5 as the biggest pig ever

FIRST TRACTOR EVER MADE

• In 1837 John Deere invented the first steel plow.

SHEEP FACT

• President Woodrow Wilson grazed sheep on the White House lawn.

DOG FACT

• The basenji is the only breed of dog that can’t bark, but they can yodel!