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Enter Dairy Recipe Drawing Jo Win One Oj These Prizes
June Dairy Month is “moov
ing” into the calendar of events.
That means it’s time to send in
your favorite recipe using dairy
products for Lancaster Farm
ing’s annual dairy recipe draw
ing.
June Dairy Month salutes
dairy farmers everywhere fro
their hard work in providing
milk, which we so often take for
granted. Lancaster Farming’s
annual drawing reminds us of all
the wonderful dairy products
available to produce culinary de
lights.
To enter the drawing, select
your favorite recipe, which must
include a substantial amount of
at least one dairy product. These
ingredients count as a dairy
product: milk, cream, sour
cream, whipped cream, butter,
yogurt, buttermilk, dry milk, ice
cream, and all hard and soft
cheeses.
Please check your ingredients
carefully. Margarine and nonda
iry substitutes such as frozen
whipped topping do not qualify
as dairy products.
Dairy recipes are needed for
appetizers, soups, breads, entrees,
vegetables, desserts, beverages,
snacks, and salads.
Clearly print or type your reci
pe entry. Be sure to give accurate
measurements, temperatures,
times, and sizes of baking dishes
to use. We reserve the right to
disqualify entries if these guide
lines are not followed.
4 I „eUing
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
PETERSBURG (Huntingdon
Co.) With 700 acres to farm
and 260 cows to milk three times
daily, there’s plenty of work at
Mowrer Farms. But owners and
parents S. Michael and Janet
Mowrer do not require their three
children to get involved in farm
ing chores.
“If they want to work on the
farm, that’s great. But I want
them to be free to be involved in
extracurricular activities. They
(the children) have a whole life
ahead of them to work. They
Home for Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Becky Mowrer is
in Juniata County with parents Michael and Janet Mow
rer, a sister, Abby, and a brother Nathan at Delaware Val
ley College. The Mowrers farm 700 acres and milk 260
cows three times daily.
With your entry, include a few
paragraphs about yourself and
your family. Although it is not re
quired, a photograph of you and
of your family is preferred. We
and our readers love to “see” the
people who send in the recipes.
Photographs will be returned if
you write your name and address
on the back of the picture.
Only one entry per family al
lowed. This contest is for adults
who are at least 18-years-old. We
require this because children who
send in recipes often inadver
tently miss measurements, ingre
dients or a part of the instruc
tions.
Send your recipe, photo, and
accompanying information with
your complete address. If we do
not have your complete mailing
address, we cannot send your
prize if you win.
A photograph of prizes will ap
pear in an upcoming issue of
Lancaster Farming.
Send entries immediately. En
tries must be postmarked by June
3 to be eligible for the drawing.
The state dairy princess and al
ternates will select the winners.
Recipe entries will be printed
throughout the month of June. A
list of the winners will be printed
in the June 29 issue.
Send entries to Lou Ann Godd,
Lancaster Farming Dairy Draw
ing, P.O. Box 609, 1 E. Main St.,
Ephrata, PA 17522 or e-mail to
lgood.eph@lnpnews.
com.
Go* Brings Devotion To Dairy Industry
should have some responsibilities,
but it’s not fair to kids to be so
tied down to the farm that they
miss out on activities with
friends,” Mowrer summed up the
philosophy that he and his wife
share.
Letting go has enabled each of
the three children to pursue
many activities, but it has also re
sulted in a devotion to dairy
farming that few kids their ages
exhibit.
Nathan, a freshman at Dela
ware Valley College, plans to re
turn to the family farm after at
taining a degree in dairy science.
Daughter Rebecca, who is both
Win one of these “cow prizes” offered to readers who participate in Lancaster Farm
ing’s June Dairy Month Drawing. Lou Ann Good, food and family features editor, dis
plays some of the prizes totaling $5OO.
Huntingdon County and the
state dairy princess, is fiercely
proud of her dad.
She said, “He’s the sixth
generation of his family to farm.
Farming is what he always want
ed to do, and I’m most proud to
represent the industry he loves
and tell others that it is farmers
who supply their food.”
And daughter Abby, although
only 14, has already poured
many years into dairy promotion
through Huntingdon County’s
dairy promotion program.
“It was actually through Abby
that I became interested in dairy
promotion,” Rebecca said of her
younger sister.
“Although I’m older, I was al
ways more shy than Abby. She
started helping with dairy
promotion a year beford I did. I
watched her and thought it look
ed cool, so I joined the next
year,” Rebecca said.
This is Rebecca’s sixth year in
dairy promotion after filling
county positions as Little Miss,
ambassador, maid, and county
dairy princess Now she has the
ultimate task state dairy prin
cess.
Although the Mowrers farm is
in Huntingdon County, their
roots reach to a
104-acre farm in
Chester County.
Encroaching hous
ing development and
high land costs
caused Becky’s dad
to look for a farm in
another county.
Mowrer said, “I
looked at various
places, but here was
most appealing. I liked the way
the farm lay. The soil is better
suited to farming than a lot of
other places.”
The acreage extends one mile
on both sides of the road to the
town of Petersburg. The south
side is hilly and the north side is
flat and runs along the river.
The buildings were in disrepair
and required new facilities to op
erate.
State Dairy Princess Rebecca Mowrer, right, credits
her younger sister with stimulating her interest in dairy
promotion.
Mowrer said, “Many years ago,
an elderly fanner told me, ‘Buy a
farm with good land. You can al
ways change the buildings but
not the land.”’
After the decision was made to
“Many years ago, an elderly farmer told me,
‘Buy a farm with good land. You can always
change the buildings but not the land.’ 99
w Michael Mowrer
Mowrer Farm
buy the Huntingdon farm, Mike’s
parents, Horace and Bernice
Mowrer, moved to a farm only
two miles away. The father and
son farmed in partnership until
five years ago, when the elder
Mowrer retired. The younger
Mowrer and his wife are in the
process of buying his parents’
farm, which they use to raise
dairy heifers.
The transition from Chester
County to Huntingdon pro
gressed fairly smoothly. The year
before they moved to the farm,
the Mowrers crop-farmed the
land in anticipation of having
feed for the herd. They con-
herd
from Chester County. At first the
herd had some problems with
sore feet attributed to the new
concrete. The herd also needed to
adjust to the milking parlor, and
it took several years to achieve
the quality of alfalfa Mowrer
wanted.
During this time, the Mowrers
were also busy remodeling the
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structed
a parlor
and a
free-stall
barn.
I n
1 9 9 0,
they
trans
ported
their
132-cow