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All was peaceful. Quiet
Mist hung over the meadow,
while the sun began threading its
way through broken clouds. Sky
reflections on the pond were
stirred only by the passage of our
Canada geese couple and their six,
pudgy goslings.
A chorus of robins, sparrows,
blackbirds poured from the thick
cover of maple leaves overhead,
accompanied by the solo squawk
ings of one loud, but off-key blue
jay. And the baby squirrels raced
up and down one large tree trunk,
like so many kittens chasing each
other about.
Amazing, this quiet and peace
fulness. Not a single four-legged,
black-and-white body romping
around anywhere outside the
fences.
Truly amazing. Because this
spring, we have encountered a
rampant, epidemic case of heifer
escapeeism. Led by what The Far
mer calls The Gang. The Gang is a
pack of about IS good-sized, bred
heifers, whose bloodlines some
where picked up the escape abili
ties of a weasel.
One evening a few weeks ago, 1
glanced at the alfalfa stand on the
southeast horizon and found it
dotted with grazing bodies.
They’ve been turning up there on
a regular basis ever since. Even
that wouldn’t be so bad, if they
stayed there in the alfalfa and
grazed. But after sneaking out a
few times when there was no one
immediately available to counter
the attack, they discovered the sil
age bag packed with high
moisture com grain.
Soon, The Gang slipped out to
make a beeline for the bag every
chance they got. Then they would
wander around the yard, examine
the garden, visit their relatives at
the dairy bam and trash the
nursery alleyway while they
sampled calf grain, and that was
when they weren’t messing
around the neighbor’s yard and
garden on the opposite side of the
meadow.
This got old fast. Real old. Real
fast.
Key problem is the two cattle
guards installed where the field
equipment road enters and exits
the meadow pasture. The cattle
guard excavations, dug the width
of the road and bridged with a
series of heavy steel bars with
open spaces between, are nearly
two feet deep. Theoretically,
equipment can be driven over the
bridge, while the gaps between the
bars keep-the cattle from crossing
it, because their feet slide through.
Theoretically, I said.
Over the years, the excavations
had Tilled somewhat with ground
and manure, deposited bit-by-bit
by hundrerds of passes over the
bridges by equipment and
manure-truck tires. After the first
few busy-body heifers discovered
they could tiptoe through the bars
of the guard closest to the farm
stead and step through to now
shallow hole beneath, it took only
a day or two for the rest to perfect
the trick.
The Farmer re-dug the excava
tion in the more shallow of the two
crossings. Which barely halted the
worst of the offenders, who
banged, bruised and bloodied their
legs while scrambling between
bars now spanning a deepened
hole. Fencing would have been the
answer but the cattle guards
had to remain open to accommo-
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CURWENSVILLE (Clearfield
Co.) The 26th Annual Clear
field County Dairy Princess pro
gram will be held June 25th at the
Curwensville Civic Center.'The
evening will begin with a dinner at
7:30 p.nv. followed by the
ceremonies.
There will be a Dairy Maid
crowning for those girls 9,10 and
11 years of age as of June 1. They
must live on a dairy farm, father
work on a dairy farm or be a mem
ber of a 4-H dairy club. The girls
must write an essay on one dairy
product (250 words) and a para
graph on why they would like to
be a dairy maid. They are to be
mailed to Mary Ann Way, RR 4,
Box 80. Clearfield. PA 16830 by
June 20.
Any girl who is 16 and not over
24 years of age is eligible to com
pete in the Dairy Princess Contest
Qualifications are to be the
daughter of a dairy farmer, a farm
manager Or herdsman, or someone
employed in a dairy related indus
try. She may also be employed
herself as one of the above or
owner of two dairy animals in a
4-H and/or FFA project
The 1993 Dairy Princess,
date the last of our seasonal,
dawn-to-dark manure hauling.
Thoroughly irritated. The Far
mer proceeded to dig the second
crossing even deeper, after cutting
out bars to widen the gaps on the
first one. It worked. For about a
day.
The Gang is out-persisting him.
They’re now taking a running
start, and making flying leaps
across the bars - laughing the
whole way, for sure.
Genetic engineering just intro
duced to society a new, improved,
long-lasting tomato.
And our own natural engineer
ing has perfected a pure bloodline
of mutant, flying bovines.
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Rebecca Glass kept busy this past
year. She is working on school
programs, has been in parades,
and passed out ribbons at the
county fair and 4-H show. Becky
with WQYX Radio and Allied
Milk Producers gave away ice
cream parties to area businesses.
She spoke at the Cooperative
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Tioga Dairy
COVINGTON (Tioga Co.)
For Tioga County Dairy Princess
Rebecca Bechtel, holding the title
of Dairy Princess was a very “re
warding experience.”
“I can’t believe the year’s com
ing to an end already,” said Bech
tel. “It seems like only yesterday
that 1 was preparing for my county
pageant As I look back on the
year, it’s filled with many exciting
and busy times from my Dairy
Princess experience. From my
trips to Harrisburg to Penn State to
Gettysburg and back to Tioga
County, I feel I’ve covered a lot of
the state.”
Throughout her reign, Ms.
Bechtel rode in parades, attended
seminars, meetings and conducted
school promotions.
“1 think being the Tioga Coun
try Dairy Princess has helped me
grow into a more responsible per
son. I hope to see more girls com
peting this year because it’s a real
rewarding experience," said Ms.
Bechtel.
Now as her reign comes to a
close, the search begins for a new
princess.
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