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1998 March-April ADCA Dexter Bulletin The Dexter Bulletin Volume 38 - No. 2 March I April, 1998 (/ln.cl tlte win.n.e'tj cz'te • • • • This was an interesting project! I Officers and Directors based my decisions on what would interest A special mention should be made to all an outsider in Dexters. The humor and of the Directors and Officers that story-type of articles appealed to me more contributed material in 1997. It was decided than the other types of articles. to exclude them from the contest since they Thanks for the opportunity. I had a contribute a considerable amount of good time with this! material as part of their duties on behalf of Karen Raymond the association to the benefit of the membership. Thanks goes to all of them for Best articles of 1997 their great contributions of 1997! 1st - Promoting Rare and Minority Breeds by Gabriella Nanci. (March/April). TbeJudge => 2nd - A Bull for Storm by Amy Karen Raymond is a published poet and Hayner. (January/February). practicing artist. Karen and her husband 3rd- Milking Rosie by Sarah Gilmour. Mark recently purchased a 40 acre farm in (January/February). Wisconsin, and plans are to add livestock and expand her fiber arts and crafts Best poetry of 1997 business, the Wizard's Workshop. 1st - The Cow Path by Pat Piehota. (November/December). • ••••••••••••••••• 2nd - Beyond Fear by Jack Goodman. (November/December). 3rd- There Once Was A Dexter by Irene St. Peter. (May/June). Best photographs of 1997 1st - T-Bone watching his mama (June) give birth by Jean Noll. (November/December). 2nd - Dex1er and Donkev Series by Wes Patton. (March/April). 3rd - Dexter cow and heifer calf by Donna Hutchinson. (May/June). All first place winners receive an American Dexter Cattle Association jacket, all second and third place winners will receive a !-shirt. If you 're a winner contact Rosemary Fleharty with your desired size so that she can get your order placed and sent to you. Congratulations! +First Place Pboto+ ••••••••••••••••••••••••• T-Bone waiting for bis mama (June) give birtb, submitted by Jean Noll . Page2 The Dexter Bulletin American Dexter Cattle Association Route 1, Box 378 Concordia, MO 64020 1998 Officers President Vice President Secretary - Treasurer James Johnson Kathleen Smith Rosemary Fleharty 4092 Broadview Rd. 351 Lighthall Road Rt. 1, Box 378 Richfield, OH 44286-9605 Ft. Plain, NY 13339 Concordia, MO 64020 (330) 659-4861 (518) 993-2823 (816) 463-7704 Available after 5:30PM CST and weekends Regional Directors Region 1 Missouri and Illinois Jerry Starnes, Rt. 13 , Box 75, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 (573) 785-2719 Region 2 Oregon and Idaho Roy Atherton, 21125 S.E. Yamhill, Gresham, OR 97030 (503) 666-5356 Region 3 Washington, British Columbia, Hawaii, and Alaska Carol Davidson, Bright Meadows, RR l , Ladysmith, BC VOR 2EO (250) 245~046 Region 4 Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah Dawn Bittner, 1001 W. Hwy 118, Monroe, UT 84754 (80 1) 527-3187 Region 5 Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchawan Cathy Nelson, Box 418, Marwayne, Alberta. Canada TOB 2XO (403) 847-2628 Region 6 Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Marvin Johnson, P.O. Box 441, Elkhart, KS 67950 (405) 696-4836 Region 7 Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio June Osters, 8446 Shepherd Road, Macedonia, OH 44056 (216) 467-0832 Region 8 Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, and Tennessee Jim Moody, 555 B N 15 Street, Immokalee, FL 33934 (941) 657-3464 Region 9 California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico Bill Kirkland, 8636 Berry Road, Wilton, CA 95693 (9 16) 687-7986 Region 10 Pennsylvania, W. Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Deleware Gwen Casey Higgins, Route 3, Box 5806, Berryville, VA 22611 (540) 955-4421 Region 11 New Jersey and New York Slavka Perrone, 8703 Murray Road, Red Creek, NY 13 143 (3 15) 947-6912 Region 12 Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont Gary Williams, RR l, Box 5131 , Sedgwick, ME 04676-9714 (207) 326-4717 Region 13 North & South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Manitoba Paul Anderson, 773 Jesup St., Indianola, IA 50125 (515) 961-6772 Region U Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, and Eastern Provinces Pat Mitchell, 7164 Barry Street, Hudsonville, MI 49426 (616) 875-7494 The Dexter Bulletin Page 3 t!IJitorial Understandably in the spring I receive betterment of the breed. For example, the less material for the Bulletin from members discussion about color is interesting although once pastures start greening up and those color is probably one of a breeds least important garden catalogs arrive. We all get busier traits. Herefords decided on a white-face which which is one of the several reasons why this had the trade-off of losing some good genes issue is running later than I would like. This from some superior bulls with a non white-face. does provide me the space to ramble on a bit On the other hand, this did establish the breed's about communication and other thoughts I identity although color is one of the more easily have. transmitted genetic traits to a crossbred. The !998 ADCA Communication is not just about talking Life And Times Of Dexters by Ted Neal has an but also about listening as it's an exchange of old photograph of a pied colored Kerry but a National Meeting information. With the upcoming World limited amount of white has been the accepted July 17- 19th Dexter Congress the most important goal description for Dexters for a great many years. Ashevi//e, N C. those that represent the ADCA can undertake Our registry is based on pedigree so one can is not whether a consensus can be reached register an animal with excessive white if they regarding an international breed standard, but so choose but that information should appear on should be that of opening up more channels of the registration papers just as black and red/dun communication for the future exchange of appear for another breeder's selection purposes. ideas and information with the worldwide This is back to that theme of communication. community of Dexter breeders. With the Board's approval, I'd like to add color One of the first things I did as editor was photographs to the Bulletin which I hope will to contact the editors in Australia and help with the red/dun issue. England for a reciprocal agreement to publish Color and horns are insignificant traits articles from our respective publications. This compared to rumps and udders. Whether one has been a benefit to both them and us. We has one or a hundred Dexters, breeders need to had a lot of articles about anchodroplasia have vision because all breeds do and should because it was the first opportunity for most of change due to market and production demands. our members to catch up on and learn about For the most part, Dexters are, and have been, the ongoing research. A few members howled the ideal docile family cow, able to fulfill it's in protest that these articles were negative dual-purpose role of providing ample and towards their type/sales of Dexters and quality beef and milk economically. The therefore prospective buyers shouldn't see the conservation of a breed is dependent on it's Bulletin. My position has always been that production and marketable attributes, not it's one should have the information before stereotype. buying just as if they were to purchase a truck. Finally, any breed association's primary First they need to look under the hood and function is the registration and transfer of then one can make the decision as to whether animals. This takes precedence over anything they may want a small engine for it's fuel else. It can, and should, provide information economy or a larger motor depending on one's about the breed. It's purpose cannot be for the needs. Ifone 's buying a house/farm they need selling of breeders cattle as it is a non-profit to know the community that they're moving organization. It can serve as a network to bring into and prospective members have that right breeders together and assist with exhibitions as well. I'm confident that.they'll make some and shows done regionally. The advertisement good friends and neighbors among the Dexter and promotion of the breed is most effective at folks. the grass roots level, whether done individually Sometimes the best decisions are no or as regional groups. decisions, for rather than reaction it's better to Well, now that I've filled the page I can do the research first so one can take step down off of my soap box. I want to thank responsible action because with most Karen once more for volunteering her time to decisions there is going to be some kind of our Dexter community.@ trade-off which needs to be understood for the Richard Henry, Editor Page4 The Dexter Bulletin Fixing Fence In Winter By Jack Goodman This poem, though not about cows directly, is about repairing a fence to hold my Dexters on the cornfield. there was corn here filling the air with its green pulsing warmth the sky was whistling blue and you could feel the ground breathe now row after row of chopped-off stalks poke up through the tired snow like headstones the dove-colored sky is a muffled echo and the shh-chunk of my boots on the snow is almost embarrassing in its loudness it is as though standing here in the gray snow there is an emptiness waiting to be filled non-cadescent light falls to the ground Andy didn't listen when I said "The bucket is empty, don't stick your forms recoil upon form head in there." Now he's the poster steer for "bucket calves".
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