Blair County Dairy
Princess Shows
Jersey Champions
LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
ROARING SPRINGS (Blair
Co.) Leslie Bailey, a senior at
Central High School and the
daughter of Janet and Bernard
Bailey, was crowned Blair County
Dairy Princess in a coronation
held on June 21.
She knows first hand what the
dairy business is all about having a
herd of 16 Jerseys in partnership
with her brother.
Her participation in the state
pageant will keep her busy as she
Blair County Dairy Princess Leslie Bailey shows her
reserve champion Jersey, Les-Lee Expo Tequllla Storm.
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qualified to show several of her
cows in state competition that
same weekend.
As a part of the Morrison’s
Cove Dairy Show held in late
July, Leslie showed the Bedford/
Blair Champion, the Senior Jersey
and overall Jersey champion.
Leslie is a member of the Centr
al FFA, Morrison’s Cov.e 4-H
Dqiry Club, Blair County Lamb
Chops; Blair County Tail Twisters
and the Horae Club.
She is also active in the Penn
West Conference Youth Cabinet
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But they lode so cute out there.
Little brown heads poked above
the alfalfa. Standing on their back
legs, peering around over the lush
foliage, looking for danger. One
bigger brown head, sort of looking
out for a couple of smaller brown
heads.
■Groundhogs. Some call them
woodchucks (as in “how much
wood can a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood).
Which they can’t But they can
chuck away a bunch of alfalfa. Or
a quarter-acre of soybeans per
hog. Devastate a field of sweet
com just as it’s about ripe and
ready to eat
Which is why most fanners
equate groundhogs as the field
crop equivalent of barn rats.
Unlike some small, furry ani
mals, groundhogs have never
caught on as cutesy cartoon char
acters. Bean are beloved as ted
dies and bunnies own the Easter
season. Mice have long enjoyed
nursery-rhyme fame. Squirrels are
television stare, featured in nutsy
cereal commercials. Even amphi
bians have Kermit as a spokes
person-frog.
Groundhogs do get their day
here in Pennsylvania, even if all
they have to do is stay asleep in a
nice, warm burrow under the snow
on February 2. Otherwise, those
who love groundhogs the most are
sharp-shooters. Along with a few
folks with bold, adventurous
tastes in wild game who find them
tasty roasted up along side a few
tender, new potatoes.
This particular family of
i groundhogs “owns” the patch of
ground around the electric pole
located next to the garden, and
over which our small patch of
raspberries (weeds at the moment)
are planted. They are too close to
the farm for the sharpshooters, so
they’ve enjoyed a peaceful and
porky life chomping down the
alfalfa. My efforts to eliminate
them last year, after they gnawed
off a row of peas, came to naught
Closing up their entrance only
sent them out the back doors,
probably grinning.
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A new field of alfalfa adjoining
the garden kept them busy in
recent weeks. They grew fat and
sleek, a mother and at least a cou
ple of youngsters we could some
times see from the picnic table on
the bock porch.
It was Late May before the gar
den was planted Eager for fresh
tomatoes. I’ve eyeballed the
plants’ progress for what seemed
like endless weeks, waiting for
some warmth and sunshine to
swell the tiny green orbs into red
mange juciy fruits. The first were
just turning color when ... the
alfalfa came off.
A day after the field had been
harvested, I made my usual morn
ing check of the tomatoes. And
found blatant vandalism. Hunks
had been chewed out of several of
them, exposing juicy interiors and
neat rows of seeds. Jagged tooth
tracks sliced through others.
In an effort to distract the
devourers, I yanged off the plants
several “aging” zucchini and yel
low squash. Maybe the hogs
would eat those and leave the
tomatoes alone.
Yeah. Right. When cows fly.
Next morning, one or two of the
senior squash bore a couple of
lines of gnaw marks—and sever
al more tomatoes had their inter
iors badly exposed to the exterior.
And the final blow came the
day my first ripe cantaloupe deve
loped a massive hole in its side,
lined with neat rows of teeth
marks.
There are ways to handle this
problem. None of them are pretty.
So this is a standing invitation
to any of those groundhog guru
groups who might need a new
mascot for their February weather
prognostications. Slop by. Bring a
cage. Come quick.
Groundhogs are not nearly so
cute with tomato and cantaloupe
all over their faces.
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