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
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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.
And, if the kids invite us to
a “Bowl” contest, we too will
know something about the
Dairy Business.
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