Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24,1989
Penny Farmery Wins Indiana
County Dairy Princess Tifle
Left to right: Outgoing Dairy Princess Bonnie Kirkland; Penny Farmery (seated);
and 1989-90 Alternate Princess Joyce Coleman.
BY RANDY WELLS
Indiana Co. Correspondent
INDIANA (Indiana Co.)
Indiana County’s 15th Dairy Prin
cess brings an appropriate name to
the position; Penny Farmery.
Penny is a 17-year-old senior at
Marion Center Area High School,
and is the daughter of Dewight
and Shirley Farmery of Marion
Center.
She was crowned Saturday,
June 17, in a pageant in Serowls
Hall on the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania campus in Indiana.
The alternate Dairy Princess for
1989-90 is Joyce Coleman, a
17-year-old senior in the coming
school year at Apollo-Ridge High
school. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Coleman of
Sallsburg RD 1.
Penny was crowned by outgo
ing Indiana County Dairy Princess
and classmate Bonnie Kirkland, a
1989 graduate of Marion Center
Area High.
As the county’s new Dairy
Princess, Penny will act as a
spokesperson for the county’s 220
dairy farmers, the largest agricul
tural industry in Indiana County.
The pageant coincided with a
Geraniums Get The Bugs Out
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
Its flowers are brilliantly colored,
its leaves ore dark and velvety—it
is the pride of many home garden
ers. But to spider mites and small
insects such as aphids, the com
mon garden geranium may be
deadly.
A forest of microscopic hairs
lopped by sticky droplets covers
the geranium, creating a hostile
environment for small insects. As
these insects try to walk around
and feed on the geranium leaves
and flowers, they become
entangled in the dense hairs. In the
struggle to free themselves, they
are coated and glued in place by
the sticky droplets.
In Penn State’s College of Agri
culture,' Dir. Ralph Mumma, a
biochemist, antv Dr. Richard
Craig, a plant breeder, arc trying
to determine how geraniums pro
duce tins "sticky trap" mechanism
proclamation by the Indiana
County commissioners earlier this
month, naming June as Dairy
Month in the county. In their pro
clamation the commissioners
noted the dairy industry generates
$l5 million of income for Indiana
County.
Penny and Joyce were the only
two contestants in this year’s
pageant Two other entrants with
drew from the competition shortly
before Saturday’s .program.
The two young women were
judged on poise, appearance and
knowledge of the dairy industry
and health benefits of drinking
milk.
In a short skit required of the
contestants, Penny appeared on
stage in the costume of a large can
of cola, lamenting the fact so
many people are dropping soft
drinks and picking up a new favo
rite beverage: milk.
In her skit, Joyce played the
role of an investigative reporter
who had just uncovered the nutri
tious benefits of milk.
The contestants also had to give
an impromptu response to a ques
tion they randomly selected.
Penny is enrolled in the
academic curriculum at Marion
and why some varieties of gera
niums have more effective traps
than others.
Examination of insect-resistant
and susceptible varieties reveals
that both produce numerous
hairs —or trichomes —topped by
clear or orange-colored droplets.
However, the two varieties differ
in the physical nature of these dro
plets. Hairs on resistant plants pro
duce glistening, sticky balls, while
those on susceptible plants sport
hardened, crumbling masses.
Researchers placed aphids on
leaves of both varieties to observe
their behavior. Aphids on resistant
i leaves spent over a third of the
lima struggling or immobilized,
their legs stuck together or stuck
to the sticky droplets. Hindered by
- the droplets, these aphids showed
low reproductive and high mortal
ity rates.
y ' yf ; r
Center High. Her school activities
include senior high inarching,
football, concert and pep band.
Varsity Club,' Latin Club and
Chess Club.
She is also a member of the var
sity swim team, and serves as a
track team statistician, an
announcer for home winter sports
events, and treasurer of Student
Council.
As secretary of the Northern
Dairy 4-H Club, Penny is actively
showing Holsteins at the county
and regional 4-H events. She is
also involved in the Teens of
Today and Marion Center Handy
Helpers 4-H clubs.
Her future plans include attend
ing a four-year college and major
ing in history and government.
In her final appearance as Dairy
Princess, Bonnie Kirkland told the
approximately 120 guests at the
pageant that her one-year reign
had been very busy and exciting,
and had passed very quickly. Dur
ing the year, she said, she had par
ticipated in 37 school dairy pro
motions, 24 special events such as
fairs and parades, and traveled
nearly 3,600 miles promoting the
county’s dairy industry.
Aphids bn susceptible plants,
however, were anything but
immobile. Unhindered, they wan
dered about the leaf surface, prob
ing, resting, reproducing and feed
ing. In fact, these aphids spent
twice as much time feeding as
their counterparts on resistant
leaves.
To determine why the droplets
differed between the resistant and
susceptible varieties, Mumma
analyzed the chemical composi
tion of both forms. He found that
both consisted of anacardic acids,
which are in the same family as
chemicals found in poison ivy.
They differed, however, by a solit
ary chemical double bond. This
difference was great enough to
make one droplet “unsaturated,”
or sticky and flowable, and the
other droplet “saturated," or
congealed.
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