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Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Pageant Scheduled
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' Second Row (loft to right): Jennto Lynn Gloss, FranWln Co; Stacey Klinger,
Centre Co; Becky Hoover, Susquehanna Co; Jennifer Talley, Chester Co;
Kynel Bomgardner, Lebanon Co; Kimberly Bonzo, PA. DAIRY PRINCESS;
33 County Princesses To Vie For State Crown
CLARION (Clarion Co.)—
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and
Promotion Services has
announced that its 33rd Annual
Dairy Princess Pageant will be
held on Saturday evening, Sep
tember 23, at the Harrisburg Mar
riott A millc/punch reception will
start at 5:30 pjn. followed by a
banquet at 6:30 p.m. and the
pageant
Thirty-thne county Dairy Prin
cesses will compete for the title of
Duty Princess now
Midwest BST Research, Field Trials Visited
BY
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
DETROIT, MI & ST. LOUIS.
MO A group of farm editors
(this one included), shuttled from
farm to farm and from research
facility, to corporate headquarters
here this week, to get the latest
update oh bovine somatotrophin
(BST) as seen through the eyes of
Monsanto Agricultural Company.
The farmers told of their experi
ences with on-farm use of BST.
The researchers showed off their
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held by Kfoiberly Bonzo of Beav
er County. The newly selected
princess will reign for a period of
cme year from September 1989 to
September 1990. During that time
she will represent the dairy far
mers of Pennsylvania speaking
out for milk and all dairy products.
The Pageant which will again
be held on the Saturday evening
preceding All-American Dairy
wed:, will end two full days of
activities and interviews for the
contestants. Four judges, all from
ultra-modern facilities , and
reported on how they get genes and
bacteria to work together to pro
duce it And the corporate officials
told why they believe facts will
prevail over emotion as this first
fruits of animal biotechnology sits
poised in the halls of the FDA,
waiting for the nod of approval to
enter the commercial market
place.
When you drive in the lane at
Nobis Dairy Farm in Fowler, MI,
located about 30 miles north and
IS miles west of Lansing, you
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Saptambar 9,1989
out of stale, will select a Pennsyl
vania Daily Princess and a first
and second alternate from seven
finalists.
The Pennsylvania Dairy Prin
cess Program is supported by
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers
through their various advertising
and promotion agencies: Ameri
can Dairy Association/Dairy
Council, Inc., Mid-Atlantic Milk
Marketing Assn., Federal Order
#36-Mid-East UDIA. and the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
know Ken and Larry ire good
managers. The buildings are in
excellent repair, the free-stall bam
is clean and airy. The milk cows
have good body condition, and the
heifers and calves ate growthy for
their age.
The Nobis brothers have put
their 260-cow commercial dairy
herd in the Monsanto field trials
for bovine somatotrophin (BST).
For the past 21 months, they have
had 100 doses available each trial
period to use at their discretion to
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SUN Area; Victoria McDaid, Waahinjpon-Greene Goa; Tracy Blair, Somerset
Co; Fay JorKpq, Lycoming Co.
Third Row (loft to right): Bobble Jo Gutshall, Cumberland Co; Jennifer
Culver, Erie Co; Robin Rupert, Clinton Co; Jennifer Grooms, Armstrong Co;
Anne Mltchdli, Berks Co; Mary Wesner, Beaver-Lawrence; Wendy Pfaff, Mer
cer Co; Juanita Plank, Mifflin Co; Susan Hess, Huntingdon Co; Melissa imes,
Juniata Co; Penny Farmery, Indiana Co.
Program as well as the Depart
ment of Agriculture and contribu- %
tions from other dairy related
organizations and individuals.
Again this year, as the result of a #
grant from Sire Power, Inc. and
several anonymous individuals
the awards to the winners will be:
$l2OO to the Pennsylvania Dairy*
Princess with alternates receiving
$5OO and $4OO respectively.
In addition, three girls will
receive $lOO awards for outstand
ing original dairy promotion pre-
improve milk production. During
that time, they have increased their
herd size by 70 head and raised
their milk production from
pounds to 25,000 pounds. And
while the Nobis brothers have
increased nutrition management in
general, they feel about half of
their production increase comes
from the use of BST.
“We are using BST to prop up
the last part of the lactation,” Ken
said. “We don’t start using it until
about 135 days into the lactation.
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$12.50 P*r YMr
sentations and two will receive
$5O awards for compiling scrap
books which chronicle their dairy
princess activities. All contestants
will receive a two-day stay at the
Marriott and an appropriate gift.
The contestants themselves will
select the coveted “Miss Conge
niality” award from among then
own ranks.
The primary purpose of the
Dairy Princess program in Penn
sylvania is the promotion of the
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For the first 100 days, you natural
ly get the boost in production from
calving, so we think it makes eco
nomic sense to use BST only in the
last part of the lactation.”
Every 14 days the brothers tie
the cows to be treated in the stalls.
One person walks down the front
of the cows with a clip board to
identify each cow, and the other
person injects the product under
the tail head. The cows don’t react
to the injection.
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