C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19,1981
Betty's royal opportunity
(Continued from Page C 2)
was really surprised when 1 won,
too!” she added with astonish
ment.
Betty Jean admitted that she has
learned much more about the
dairy industry since becoming
Berks County’s own represen
tative. She has also learned more
about her own county and has met
a lot of other dairy farmers.
“I’m just beginning to realize
how big Berks County really is and
I am that much more proud to be
representing Berks County,” she
continued.
Betty Jean has been rather busy
as Dairy Princess, and is presently
preparing for the state competition
to be held September 21 and 22 at
the Penn Harris Motor Lodge,
Harrisburg.
She has already been to fairs and
public meetings and has done radio
announcing. “That was something
new and different for me,” she said
honestly.
“Being a dauy princess has
opened my eyes to the many other
farm activities which are con
stantly going on,” she continued.
“I have been busy in spells, as
dairy princess,” Betty Jean
continued to explain. Some weeks 1
don’t do anything and other weeks
lam very busy.
Betty Jean enjoys meeting other
people and feels she can be a help
in promoting dairy products. What
bothers her most, she said, are the
people who tend to shy away from
milk because it is fattening, but
who will not hesitate to reach for a
soda.
“Milk is nutritious,” she em
phasized, "where as sodas are
"empty”.
This enthusiastic dairy princess
is looking forward to visiting
elementary schools to talk to the
young children about the dairy
industry.
“Kids can come up with amazing
questions,” she remarked. Betty
Jean explained that she was a
teacher’s aid in. high school and
really enjoyed doing it. She plans
to start visiting schools in
December or January.
Betty Jean is also looking tor
ward to October’s scheduled ac
tivities, which mclude parades.
"I’ve never been in one before,”
she commented.
Betty Jean has learned a lot
about all the different dairy & farm
organizations and how they are
working together for the same
goals. Especially in promoting
dairy products.
At seminar held this summer for
the dairy princesses, Betty Jean
learned much more about the
different promotional activities
going on and related that it gave
her faith m the American Dairy
Association.
She was especially interested in
learning how they keep up with
advertising and not just a scheme
like many ot the other soft drink
manufacturers try to portray.”
Betty Jean was also amazed with
all the work which goes into a
cattle sale, which she had
previously taken for grafted.
“This year 1 Jan sales slips for
the Berks County Dairy Sale,” she
said.
To help illustrate the progress
dairying made m milk techniques
and to creatively explain the
nutritious side of dairy products,
Betty Jean created a skit which
she calls “Health and History.” It
consists of a large rag doll made by
Betty Jean and a dairy bam
decorated with Berks County Hex
signs. Betty Jean portrays a
grandfather talking to his grand
dauther, a very mquizative little
girl about milking cows, and
drinking milk.
"1 got the idea from listening to
my father talk about how they used
to have to milk.
Betty Jean is also scheduled to
appear at Philadelphia Children’s
Zoo on dairy day and at the In
ternational Food Exposition to be
From beneath the bed covers
came a familiar, if somewhat
muted, sound.
“Unless your stomach’s learned
how to purr, you’d better get rid of
that cat you’re hiding in there," I
admonished the widely grinning
held at the Keystone Race Track
later this year.
She is looking forward to seeing
the other dairy princesses she met
earlier this summer, at the state
pageant and has been busy
preparing her scrap book.
Dairy farming has been, and still
is a very important part of her life
and deep down she hopes it will
always be.
She also enjoyed being a little
sister .to her four brothers and
didn’t mind not having a sister.
“My brothers tended to stick up for
me at times,” she said. “And I
learned alot from them.”
Berks Countians can look for
ward to seeing much more of this
eager, .energetic young lady,
selected as Berks County dairy
princess last April 25.
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On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
youngster, being “tucked in” for
the night.
Riding herd on a family of
animal lovers sometimes is almost
more than 1 can handle. The af
fection showered on our animal
residents, extending from the
dairy cows down to each new
barnyard baby bom that the kids
can catch, seems never ending.
Cats are no exception. In spite of
prolonged periods of rain or
drought, heat or cold, each year’s
cat crop is a bumper one.
Call “Kitty, kitty” within the
confines of the property and you’ll
be mobbed by a stampeding herd
of black, gray-striped, calico,
white and the inevitable black
witb-white-socks-and-bib cuddly
kittens and hungry mother cats.
And every one is the “favorite.”
£ven mention the thought of giving -
a kitten away, and you’ll be sub
jected to a-verbal lashing because
"That’s my favorite! ”
They don’t seem to realize it, but
those cats are intended for bar
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the hay-mow varmits at bay.
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peals much more highly to most of
them.
Rather than, chase pets, too
many of the cats hone their talents
at slipping through the back door
of the kitchen every chance they
can.
Puddy’s an expert at that trick.
Puddy (as m Puddy Cat) ap
peared several weeks ago in the
flower bed, a tiny wisp of black fur,
all head and ears topping a thin,
half-starved body.
She’d been orphaned, or outcast,
or deposited from the barn to the
doorstep by an angel of cat mercy
who knew the waif would be
clasped to the bosom of a
- household of pet lovers.
One day soon afterward, 1 found
myself doing something unheard of
at the supermarket: buying cat
food.
On her diet of cat food and other
choice tidbits, Puddy has grown
fat, sleek, spoiled and loving. When
she’s not trying to sneak into the
forbidden beds, she Claims the rug
at the kitchen sink, yowling when I
step on her tail as 1 tnp over her
for the dozenth tune.
Meanwhile, the other two grown
sometunes-hOusecats are prowling
the screen door, intent on charging
inside to snatch their bit of the
special goodies stashed in the
cupboard.
To my disgust, the catfood drew
other creatures as well. Mice.
They chewed through the box to
reach the luscious egg, cheese,
fish, liver potpourri.
Recently, 1 again found myself
making an unheard of purchase at
a checkout counter.
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