814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25, 1988 Three generations of McClintocks hosted the Sullivan junty Twilight Meeting From left are Earl McClintock, son Wayne and his wife, Helen, and their daughter Sally the 1987 Sullivan County dairy princess. Twilight Meeting Introduces Nonfarm P BY BARBARA MILLER Lycoming Co. Correspondent MUNCY VALLEY (Sullivan) It was twilight and the smell of freshly mown hay scented the air the evening of June 14 at the Way ne McClintock farm near Muncy Valley. The annual Sullivan Coun ty Twilight Meeting, sponsored by the June Dairy Festival Committee and Sire Power, was in progress. The 65 guests were seated out side on hay bales arranged in semi circles around a microphone per ched atop two hay bales positioned in front of a wire com crib. To the rear, providing the younger set with additional seating, was a half filled hay wagon. Speakers talked, but were not always heard above the mooing of the cows, bawling of the calves, or the noise of passing traffic. According to Mary Lambert, a member of the Dairy Festival Committee, for the past 20 years it has been a custom in Sullivan County to have a twilight meeting at the farm of the current dairy princess. Sally McClintock, McClintock’s daughter, is this year’s Sullivan County dairy princess. The purpose of the twilight meeting, is to introduce nonfarm people to farming life as well as give the farming community a chance to get a closer look at an area farm, and, of course, to pro mote the dairy industry. Before everyone settled down on the hay bales for the evening’s program, ample time was given to explore the bam and cast a vote in various contests such as cattle judging and guessing the weight of a calf. Leanne Hennip and hef.mother, Mrs. Gary Hennip of Springville, consider pettihg the pigs. tiously attempts to pet a pig Featured speaker for the even ing was Paul Nichols, industry relations manager of the American Dairy Association (ADA), who just recently returned from a trip to Holland and Switzerland. In a short speech he noted it was appro priate that the twilight meeting was held on Rag Day. In this country, he said, we have the freedom to enjoy agriculture and dairy farm ing and although we have some restrictions, we arc not hampered by a lot of regulations. Here, he said, farmers can make decisions about the number of ani mals they keep and the amount of milk they can get their cows to pro duce. Whereas in Holland he vis ited a farm where the bam was only half full of cows because the government places quotas on the amount of manure they can spread per acre. Lif This is necessary, he explained, because the Netherlands is a low country and well saturated with water and doesn’t absorb material very well. But, he added, farmers are definitely hampered by it. In conculsuion, he noted that ADA is a program of advertising and nutrition education and com mended the dairy princess prog ram “because these young ladies have opened many doors and reached young people whereas others of us could not.” Next to lake the podium was host and his family, which included his father, Earl, wife, Helen, and daughter, Sally. It is tradition at the twilight meeting for the host farmer to tell a little about his farm and field questions about farming from the audience. According to McClintock the farm has been m their family for five generations. Although not officially listed as a century farm, the place was settled more than a hundred years ago by Wayne’s great grandfather Lafayette McClintock. They keep a herd of 46 Holslcins and milk about 28 according to McClintock and farm about 200 acres of rented and own ed land. McClintock also runs a construction business. In answer to a question about how long they’ve been selling milk, the elder McChntock shared his memories on the evolution of storing milk on a dairy farm. He replied he could remember when they had a cement trough in the milk house and put up ice to cool the milk with. 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