WHERE THE REPUTATION COMES FROM: Davis has long been known by its bicycles and farm animals. So where are all the cows? Well, many live at the Dairy Teaching and Research Facility -- home to more than 100 cows. Located just west of the Tercero dorms, the barn provides an opportunity for research in fields that include nutrition, genetics and embryo transfer as well as hands-on dairy experience. Student residents milk the herd daily at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., and later sell the milk to Hilmar Cheese Company in Turlock, where it is turned into cheese. The facility, which employs two herd managers and two milkers on top of the four student residents, also breeds and raises its own cows. About 15 calves are conceived each month through artificial insemination. Above, Fred Stewart, a milker and animal technician, works at the campus dairy. -- By Mike Sintetos