A3S— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12,1980 DIPPING INTO THE DAIRY BOWL The dairy bowl referred to here is not necessarily filled with milk punch or other drinkable goodies, but it can pack a real punch when it comes to knowing what goes on in the Dairy Business. The Bowl I’m talking about is the competitive 4-H event that occupies the at tention of many 4-H Dairy Clubs these days. In case you don’t know what is happening, i’ll fill you in. The Dairy Bowl is one of the major activities that keeps 4-H club members on their toes participating in local, regional and state 4-H events. Based on the same idea as the once-popular TV College Bowl competition, teams of 4-H’ers vie against each other to answer questions about farming in general, and cows and dairying in particular. A club team consisting of three or four persons pit their skill and knowledge against another club team. The moderator asks a 11)6 Dairy Business By Newton Bair question relating to the Dairy Business, and the first person who thinks he can answer it presses a button. Buzzers buzz and lights flash, and the button pusher proceeds to answer the question. “What is the technical name for a cow’s milk vein?” Answer “subcutaneous abdominal mammary vessel!” Well, (a hem), everybody knows that almost everybody, anyhow. Our team gets 10 points for answering correctly, and a bonus question follows. The official judge places a class of animals 4 3 2 1 with penalty cuts between the placings being 3,4,2. You placed the class 214 3. What is your score?” Try figuring that out in your head and you have exactly 10 seconds to get it right! The answer is, “the score is 24”. It took me several minutes to come up with the answer, which I later verified with the help of scoring tables and a computer. Not all of the questions asked are that difficult, but even a sunple one can confuse you when the pressure is on For example, take this one “What crop furnishes the most feed energy per acre: (a) alfalfa (b) corn silage (c) soybeans?” Tricky, but of course it was answered correctly “com silage.” Another version of the same question cost the team 10 points. “Which crop furnishes the most protein per acre?” Someone an swered, “soybeans”, which is wrong. You knew it was alfalfa, didn’t you? I guess my point m describing the Dairy Bowl competition among 4-H’ers is to let you know how the 4-H program helps to prepare these young people for a useful and profitable life on the farm. The answers to many important questions can be learned in many ways, but the easiest way to learn is then you’re having fun. Even though they are dead serious during the game, they are obviously enjoying it. Meanwhile, wits are sharpened, skills are developed and useful facts are learned. And, of course, young citizens are preparing for productive and happy lives. The Dairy Bowl game is only one of many 4-H dairy club activities. Raising a dairy calf successfully is the number one project. Grooming, training and showing the animal is also part of the excitement of 4-H. Good record keeping and management of dairy animals is of vital interest and importance. Learning to judge and place animals owned by others is also part of the fun and training, not to mention clipping, hoof trimming, selecting sires to breed the 4-H heifers, and all the swimming parties, baseball g<tiiK.~ dint m cream slurping. T'h.c-rnof'p could end nitha few select Dairy Bowl questions to test your knowledge of the business But, to avoid em barrassment for those of us who haven’t had 4-H training, let’s just sharpen up our dairy know-how by studying the breed Journals, reading. Hoard’s and the other good farm periodicals, and attending the Fairs and Roundups in the next couple of months. 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