Ei2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 2,1990
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children.
Last summer, Ann used an old
bridesmaid’s dress to make a Cin
derella costume for Matthew’s
cow, Luscious. Matthew dressed
as Prince Charming, and the pair
was named overall champions at
the Maryland State Fair. Their
photo appeared in the July 1989
issue of “National Geographic
World,” with the slogan, “Milk’s
the One” prominently displayed on
the cow’s side.
The family recently hosted the
fourth grade class from Corpus
Christi, a Catholic school in
Chambersburg. All three Day
children attend the school, and are
the only students who live on a
working farm. David showed his
David takes full care of his poultry flock, collecting the eggs every day after
school. He reports that he gets 9-11 eggs a day from his 13 hens.
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classmates the chickens he raises,
and Curtis explained the various
stages of a cow’s life, showing
them the calves, heifers, dry cows
and milk cows. He milked a cow
for the children and showed them
the feeders and other aspects of the
operation. “We put in a plug for
dairy products, too,” Curtis said.
“We fed them ice cream!”
The family was surprised to dis
cover, upon reading thank-you
notes from the children, that the
item that most fascinated (he stu
dents was the magnet given to
cows for hardware.
Curtis serves as advisor to the
Cumberland County Junior Dairy
Bowl Team, of which David and
Matthew are members. The team
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nia Slate University, with Matth
ew, a sixth grader, placing first in
reasons and David ninth. The team
also took third place at the Pen
nsylvania State Junior Holstein
Convention in February.
Curtis brought excellent creden
tials to his position as advisor. In
1960 he won the national 4-H
Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in
Waterloo, lowa. The next year, he
earned the Highest Individual
Scorer designation in the Interna
tional Competition in Cambridge,
England. The engraved, silver
milk can trophy he won was pre
sented to him by the Queen Mother
of England.
He is no stranger to the show
ring, either. “I’ll judge any chance
I get,” he said. In April, he judged
Al
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the 234 head of cattle entered in the
Maryland Spring Show, and has
been invited to judge the Franklin
County 4-H Round-Up in August.
His early mentors were John Mor
ris and the late Dorothy Emerson.
The boys have inherited their
father’s love of show cattle. Both
have show animals which they
ready for the ring themselves.
They also help select the sires for
their show calves. "They are very
involved and interested,” Ann
said. Curtis acTded, “If they’re
going to work, they will have a say,
loo.”
The family showed at the East
ern Show in Harrisburg in Septem
ber. Their three-year-old,
Lyncholm Valor Pixie, look third
place in her class and was named
Total Performance Winner of the
show. Pixie, an All-Pennsylvania
three-year-old, also won the three
ycar-old class at the Southcentral
Championship Show in August.
The Days own this Sir C Valor
daughter, who is classified 90
points, in partnership with Kings
tead Farms. She is pictured on the
cover the the Spring 1990 Holstein
Directory of 21st Century
Genetics.
At the Shippensburg Fair last
July, the Days showed six heifers,
and brought home top honors in
the Junior Yearling, Senior Year
ling and Junior Best Three Female
classes.
At the Day’s February 1990
classification their BAA was
105.6. They had three Excellent
cows, one of whichg is a homebred
animal, and 14 Very Goods.
In 1988 Tri-Day Farm received
the Progressive Breeder Award
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Ann does all the record
keeping for the farm.
from the Holstein Association,
The Days have not been given
an RHA yet because DHIA
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Tri-Day farm bred the popular
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herd, one of which made over
1,000 pounds of fat as a two-year
old.
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is to concentrate on mating for
show cows. “We have three kids
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other times. You can’t have the
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