(Continued from Pago 29)
Duffield Lyon, known to her
friends as “Duffy,” has with
stood cool carving conditions in
order to warm the hearts of mil
lions and promote dairy
products, namely butter. Duffy’s
life-sized butter cows have
become an institution at the
lowa State Fair, where they
have been featured year since
1960. Her butter sculptures have
appeared at World Dairy Expo,
National Dairy Congress, the
International Dairy Show, and
the Calgary Stampede as well as
fairs in California, Arizona,
Kansas, Wisconsin, Maryland,
Illinois and Missouri. Duffy dis
covered her talents by accident,
winning a snow-sculpture con
test at lowa State University in
1948 when one judge, Christian
Peterson later asked her to study
with him.
In addition to her butter
sculptures of cows and other fig
ures, Duffy’s impact on the
dairy industry goes far beyond
the crowds she draws. She has
been a dedicated spokesperson
for the dairy industry through
dairy product promotions and a
promoter of the Jersey breed.
Dick Kellogg is among the
original group of AI Managers
who met at Tiffin to establish
the organization which became
known as the National Associa
tion of Animal Breeders
(NAAB) of which he also later
served as the association’s presi
dent.
Dick grew up on a Jersey
farm in northeast Ohio and at
tended Blackburn College in
southern Illinois. In 1937, he
graduated from Ohio State Uni
versity with a degree in Dairy
Science. It was in 1943 that Dick
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Contest Winners, Awards Scholarships
began work as an artificial in
seminator in Ashtabula County,
Ohio one of the first non
veterinarians allowed to per
form AI on cows in Ohio.
Shortly thereafter, he took over
management of Northeast Ohio
Breeding Association.
Kellogg received a Distin
guished Service Award from
Ohio State University in 1970
and was presented the Dairy
Science Hall of Service Award in
1972. In 1973, Kellogg was hon
ored with the “Governor’s
Award for Community Action.”
The American Jersey Cattle
Club recognized Dick with an
Honorary Membership in 1975
for his meritorious service to the
organization and in 1992, he was
selected as the third person to be
awarded the NAAB Pioneer
Award. Since then, he has also
been presented with distin
guished service awards by the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
and was inducted into the Ohio
Agricultural Hall of Fame in
1981.
Dick and his wife, Lena,
reside in Columbus, Ohio and
are the parents of two sons and
three daughters.
Marlin Hoff Named Distin-
guished Dairy Cattle Breeder
Marlin Hoff of Coldsprings
Farms has been selected to
receive the coveted National
Dairy Shrine’s Distinguished
Dairy Cattle Breeder Award for
2000. Marlin and his family milk
nearly 700 Holsteins at their
dairy in New Windsor, MD. He
and his wife, Kathleen, have two
sons, lan, 32, and Matthew, 30.
Both also live in New Windsor.
Marlin graduated from the
University of Maryland with a
degree in dairy science. He re-
turned to the family farm and
eventually purchased the entire
herd. Over the last three years,
his herd has averaged close to
24,000 pounds of milk, 900
pounds of fat, and 770 pounds of
protein. Ninety-four percent of
the herd is homebred, and 97
percent is registered. The grade
cows are used as embryo trans
fer recipients. Coldsprings
Farms has participated in the
herd classification program for
37 years. In the last five years,
100 cows classified Excellent
and more than 450 scored Very
Good.
The herd is milked in a
Pa. State Maple Tour Sept. 15-16
YOUNGSVILLE (Warren
Co.) The 2000 Pennsylvania
Maple Tour will be hosted by the
Endless Mountains Maple Pro
ducers Association Sept. 15-16.
Headquarters for the tour will
be the Wysox Fire Hall in
Wysox. State directors will meet
on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7:30
p.m. at the hall.
The Endless Mountains Asso
ciation has lined up stops of in
terest to children and adults.
The tour begins with registra
tion from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
on Sept. 15. Buses will leave
promptly at 8:30 a.m. for stops
at the Proctor Gamble plant in
Mehoopany, Homestead Maple,
Back Achers Farm (maple and
gift shop), and a soup and sand
wich lunch. There will also be
time to visit with the vendors
after the tour.
The banquet, state Maple
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milk weighty recording. Marlin
still does much of the milking
himself. The cows are housed in
free stalls; the heifers are kept
on loose housing; and calves are
pat in hutches and go through
an extensive vaccination pro
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Mailin is well known for his
Heart of Coldsprings production
sales, which he conducted from
time to time when his cull rate
was low and surplus females
were plentiful. Fresh cows and
promising bred heifers made su
perior genetics available to a va
riety of dairy farmers. Today,
tainment will be at the fire hall
beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday’s tour begins at 8:30
a.m. Coffee and cookies will
again be available beginning at
7:30 a.m. Visits to Bradley-
Mann maple syrup, gift shop,
and Christmas tree farm in
Mosherville and two other syrup
producers as well as lunch in the
western Bradford County area
are planned.
The cost for both days and
banquet is $75. Individuals days
Biotechnology
The Public Discussion
(Continued from Pago 25)
May, 2000, three out of five
consumers in the U.S. believe
they will benefit from
biotechnology within the next
five years. Moreover, the survey
reported that 69% of the
respondents were more likely to
buy foods that had been modified
for insect protection and require
less pesticide spray. Based on
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Coldsprings Farms has had
625 cows with lifetime produc
tion over 100,000 pounds of milk
and/or 4,000 pounds of fat
and/or 3,000 pounds of protein.
Coldsprings Ira Kewpie (EX94),
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duced 216,860 M; 8,634 F; and
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lent offspring. Over the years,
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