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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 22,1977
on the farm
Girls, cars, and cows -- that’s about
all we were interested in. I suppose
that’s normal for many college
students, although cows, of course,
don’t rate too high with anyone
except dairy majors.
You’d think a college student
would have all sorts of profound
subjects to talk about. But the group
I hung around with didn’t The Viet
Nam War was in its early stages while
I was at Penn State, but we hardly
knew about it. All we had on our
minds was girls, cars, and cows.
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LIFE
By Dieter Krieg
Occasionally we’d think about
studies for a little bit.
Why, those college years are so far
back that we young men even op
posed mini-skirts. But it didn’t take
long before we liked that fashion.
Long hair was just coming on the
scene during the mid-Sixties, but
anyone enrolled in agriculture had
the cow clippers to contend with if
that’s the hair style he chose. Long
hair was for girls only. Especially if
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Girls, cars, and cows. That was
what we usually had on our mind
Only with a couple "of us it wasn't
necessarily in that order, judged by
the topics of “bull sessions" which
often dragged on into the wee hours.
it used to bewilder one of my city
reared buddies who was a rather
studious type and has since gone on
to bedome a metallurgical engineer
with executive responsibilities.
Nearly every time he’d come in for a
break from his book work, Dale and I
snowed him with talk about
registered Holstems, pedigrees,
production records, dairy herd
management, and anything else
having to do with cows. “Cows, cows,
cows! Is that all you can talk about? I
don’t believe you guys l ” he’d
proclaim in mock protest and
genuine amusement.
But even Rich found cows sort of
interesting, especially when we
explained judging to him. When we
told him we often applied the scoring
system to girls we see on campus,
downtown, or anywhere, he became
especially interested. One year we
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had him enter the Hoard’s Dairyman
Cow Judging Contest. That was a
real accomplishment, considering
that Rich probably couldn’t have
distinguished the udder from the
brisket before he met Dale and me.
Being dairy science majors, cows
weren’t an inappropriate subject to
talk about, although I must admit we
layed it on a little thick at times just
to needle Rich. Often (or always, as
the case may be) being lovesick, the
fun and laughter didn’t come as easy
sometimes when girls was the topic
of converstion. As for cars, we
checked out the ads in magazines,
discussed the features, and argued
over which one was best.
To some recent graduates of
colleges and universities, my four
years at Penn State may sound as
exciting as a cow chewing her cud.
But despite all the small talk and bull
sessions and occasional pranks, we
were there to learn. As for protests,
which became popular later, that
sort of nonsense doesn’t sit too well
with students who have their roots in
a life on the farm.