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Maiissa Dull, 7, wins a cow
eraser from the game show at
the Pennsylvania Dairy Prln
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Services.
Saturday afternoon show In the large arena.
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What’s A Kid To Do
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
What’s a kid to do at the State
Farm Show?
Plenty.
In fact, there’s more to do than
one can actually cover in one day.
Kids of all ages spend a lot of
time in the Family Living and
Agricultural Learning Center
located in the Northeast Building,
upper level of the Farm Show.
Games, toys, and even a tunnel
slide are there for kids to enjoy.
The Shaver’s Creek Environ
mental Center teach sessions
throughout the day on such things
as live birds of prey. Master gar
deners demonstrate how to make
critters from pods, seeds, cones,
and other natural products and
4-H’ers teach sessions on puppy
care and other things they team in
4-H.
If you’re lucky, you might be in
the upper level when cake, cook
ies, and pies are sliced and distri
buted to those who’d like to
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sample the food contest entries.
It depends on what day you
attend the show, but in die large
arena, daily events such as a rodeo,
or horse pulling or draft horses
attract large audiences. Sometime;
it’s difficult to find a scat, but there
are thousands of seats and if you
hang around, you’re sure to find
one.
Make sure to take a look at the
rabbits. Many unusual rabbits are
on display. Watch the cows and
sheep getting hair cuts, the horses
and steers getting primped few a
show, and the crazy antics of the
pigs.
Of course, there’s plenty of
good things to eat For kids, the
favorites continue to be old stand
bys such as French fines, cotton
candy, milk shakes, and hambur
gers. But for parents and the mote
adventurous, portabella
mushrooms and baked trout sound
more appealing.
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Eight-year-old Carl Rudy leads Spooker, a Welsh Moun
tain Pony, through the crowd at the Farm Show. Carl Is thi
son of Fred and Unda Rudy. His dad Is a Dauphin County
extension agent.
At Farm Show?
lly Living area.
Hands on teaming to available at the Farm Show.
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