submitted by Corinne Philpott
It was Rensselaer County Dairy Princess night at Hoosick Grange on June 28. Miss Isabella Wiley was at our Grange. She made us a fruity punch that was delicious. She told us she just graduated from Hoosic Valley High School this week. Then she told us her farm background. She has 50 animals and 15 of these are being milked. Most of her animals are Jersey. She is going to go to Cobleskill College in the fall and study Agriculture. She belongs to the Dairy League Program, and they go on trips to farms to learn different things. She went to two farms recently, one in Connecticut and one in Massachusetts.
These farms belonged to business people looking to invest their money and were beautifully done. One farm belonged to a shoe business that sells shoes starting at two thousand a pair. She didn’t buy any. Isabella is a very knowledgeable farm girl. We asked her lots of questions. She was dairy princess last 2015-16, and now she is acting princess because they didn’t have any this year.
She told us her father was bailing hay and she needed to help – after all she’s her father’s favorite daughter. We made a donation to The William Rowe Scholarship Fund, a senior in her class who was killed in an accident. We thanked Isabella for coming to the Grange.
Berta Burr served delicious refreshments of cake, ice cream and soda. The lecturer read about how to avoid being called a gutless, lily-livered, yellow chicken.