Dairy princess
needed. “People should
know of hulk and how far
aS being a most mers work, and that milk
)ual a nc * healthy food. can’t just be gotten off the
o ugh she does not shelf,” she commented at
'‘ly live on a farm, her one point in the contest. She
g Mr.' and Mrs. is the oldest of four children
,\G. Yoder, haw some and a former 4-H member,
near Shoemakersville Placing third in the contest
they own and operate was 19-year old Christine
ffow dairy farm. Miss Adam, daughter of Mr. and
helps out both mor- Mrs. James H. Adam,
and evening during the Hamburg R 2. A graduate of
, and adds that the Hamburg High School, Miss
is making plans to Adam is presently a student
to the farm once the at the Penn State University
>n are out of school. Berks Campus where she is
second of four chilren, majoring in agricultural
Yoder attends Ham- education. She lists 4-H, the
flrgh School and has Grange, and the Junior
ictive in 4-H, FFA, the Holstein Club as some of her
;e Nurses Club, girls activities and plans a career
,jt basketball and in either teaching or ex
iey, the student council tension work. As the oldest of
the National Honor six children, she has become
ie ty. well - acquainted with a
first runner-up in the variety of chores on - her
Ise competition was parents’ 265 acre dairy farm.
Hafer, 17-year old The family owns 135 head of
iter of Mr- and Mrs. Holsteinsj and she herself
r. Hafer, Douglassville has done the milking on
A business student, 7 and many occasions. She also
- a secretary for the _ said she enjoyed driving
iding Bone Fertilizer tracotrs, sewing, and gar-
Miss Hafer’is a 1976 dening, and considers the
juate of Daniel Boone close-knit farm family to be
>h School. A healthy one of the main advantages
’ng girl with attractively of living an a farm. She has
•d short blond hair, the shown some of her Holsteins
md princess will take for the past ten years and
tm a number of public continues to be active on the
learances along with farm and in related areas in
Yoder. spite of her studies.
The Hafers have a milking All ten of the girls, as well
rd of 75 Holsteins, with as dairy prinesses from
'eh Tammy helps out as previous years and coon-
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The Berks County Dairy Princess Pageant was
held at the Berkshire Mall, just west of Reading,
and drew large crowds. Other attractions included
dinators, and volunteers,
took part in the week-long
dairy promotion event held
at the mall. Aside from the
various educational
displays, the girls also had
lemonstrations on cooking,
mtter making, and baking.
An additional attraction to
le conclusion of Dairy Week
Berks County was the
tpearance of the “Singing
Lightweight
Aluminum
*‘v /*
Millers,” a well-known
Dauphin County dairy farm
family which entertains
across the state at various
functions.
As the winner of the dairy
princess pageant, Miss
Yoder will represent her
county in statewide com
petition in September at
Harrisburg.
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Jersey Shore, PA
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Center Hall, PA
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Dushore
717-924-3757
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RDI New Holland, PA
717-754-7889
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Lancaster Farming
the "Singing Millers" and -.various exhibits
depicting agriculture and food.
Bulk fly from
U.S. to
On May 17, twenty-one
bulls of ten beef and dairy
breeds, were flown from
Madison, Wis. to Londrina,
Brazil. The bulls were sold
by American Breeders
Service (ABS), a division of
W. R. Grace & Co., to
CIPARI, a Brazilian animal
insemination' company.
Dr. Robert E. Walton,
president of ABS, stated,
"The bulls, along with semen
and technical training in bull
semen production, will aid
CIPARI in expanding A.I.
services to Brazilian cat
tlemen.”
Breeds in the shipment
include Angus, Red Angus,
Hereford, Polled Hereford,
Limousin, Santa Gertrudis,
Simmental, Shorthorn,
Holstein and Jersey.
CIPARI, at present, offers
only sires of the native Brah
man-type breeds and will
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Brazil
now expand their bull power
through the addition of these
new sires.
Dr. Julio Brouwer,
longtime ABS Sales
Manager in South America,
is working on site with
CIPAEI on its expansion of
facilities, technology and
marketing.
American Breeders
Service, with international
headquarters at DeForest,
Wis.; has facilities at*
Wellington, Colo, and
DeForest. ABS, a leader in
A.I. for the past 35 years,
carries on extensive
research in animal genetics
and in bull semen produc
tion, and markets superior
genetics to cattlemen in the
United States and in over 40
other countries.
The bulls left Madison by
Convair 880 and are expected
to arrive in Londrina 15
hours later.