Our 4-H club, in Harvard, IL called the Milky Way 4-H Club, celebrates Dairy month by doing a dairy exhibit and a petting zoo at the local festival called Harvard Milk Days. Attached is a picture of the very last class at our Milk Days Dairy Cattle Show 2008. The class is the Pee Wee Showmanship. The youngster all the way to the left is my son, Justin (1yr and 2 month) with his uncle Philip Shanks (15). This class is to help get the younger youth interested in the dairy.

For the Dairy Exhibit, we hand out flyers with information on them about the dairy industry. We also run a video on the TV showing two of the local dairy farms. The video shows cows being fed, milked and relaxing. You can view the video by going to http://milkdays.com and clicking on the photos link, and then clicking on the youtube link.

For the Petting Zoo, we had a Jersey calf, Brown Swiss calf, and a cross (Holstein & Brown Swiss).
~Submitted by Tim Shanks

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