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4A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, June 27,2018
Rotary plants lending library at Rock Creek
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
The Rotary Club of
Dawson County recently
installed a Little Lending
Library near the play
ground and Rotary Island
at Rock Creek Park to
help promote reading in
all ages by providing easy
access to free books.
Rotary is one of four
groups installing a library
around the county after
the Dawson County
Chamber of Commerce
Community Development
Committee and Dawson
Family Connection
received permission from
the county to install the
lending libraries on coun
ty property in spring of
last year. WEE Books has
installed one at War Hill
Park, Family Connection
has placed one at the
Dawson County Public
Health Office and the
Kiwanis Club will place
one at Veterans Memorial
Park. The chamber will
also place one at their
office. The libraries are
small wooden boxes
stocked with free books
for anyone to take or bor
row. The idea is to “take
one now, leave one later.”
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Photos by Allie Dean Dawson County News
Left, Rotarians Brian Haas, Robin
Correnti, Kenneth Grosch, Nicole
Stewart, Christie Moore, Marcus
Sewell, Adam Smith and Courtney
Roberson pose next to the newly
installed lending library at Rock Creek
Park. Above, Rotarian Nicole Stewart
places books in the new lending
library.
Mobile Dairy Classroom visits Dawsonville
By Jessica Brown
jbrown@dawsonnews.com
Nicole Duvall has been
operating the Mobile Dairy
Classroom out of Madison,
Ga. for the past 10 years.
She travels all across the
state to schools, libraries
and public events to edu
cate kids and adults alike
about the ins and outs of
running a dairy farm.
“This is kind of a com
munity outreach, because
we can go to schools for
free.. .for the schools to go,
you know, most of them it
cost something,” Duvall
said. “A lot of schools only
get like two or three field
trips a year and to certain
places so this is just - it
works out good for our
school systems.”
Kids at the Dawson
County Satellite Library on
June 18 couldn’t contain
their excitement when
Duvall pulled up to where
they were seated under a
tent and opened up the side
door of a trailer to reveal
Jasmine, a three-year-old
brown cow ready to be
milked.
Jasmine, who goes by
the nickname Jazzy, is a
Jersey cow and weighs 800
pounds.
Jersey cows are much
smaller than the black and
white Holstein cows that
reach about 1,500 pounds,
Left, children took turns petting Jasmine, a three
Dawson County Satellite Library about the milking
on the farm with a milking machine.
Photos by Jessica Brown Dawson County News
-year-old Jersey cow who came from Madison County to teach kids at the
process on June 18. Right, Nicole Duvall demonstrates how cows get milked
Duvall said.
Jersey cows are great
milking cows because,
although they are smaller in
size, their milk produces
more cream which makes
them great for producing
whipped cream, ice cream,
coffee creamer and butter.
Kids were amazed when
Duvall explained that a typ
ical day at the dairy farm
for Jazzy requires being
milked at 3:30 a.m. and
3:30 p.m. She also eats
about 50 pounds of feed
and drinks 20-30 gallons of
water every day so that she
can produce up to eight
gallons of milk per day.
Duvall also explained
how some dairy farms in
southern Georgia cross
breed Jersey and Holstein
cows so that they are better
suited for the summer heat.
Holstein cows typically
enjoy 42 degree weather, so
by crossing them with the
smaller Jersey cows, they
produce milking cows bet
ter adapted to the southern
climate.
“If you’ve ever seen a lab
crossed with a poodle
they’re called a labradoo-
dle, and you get both of
those great qualities from
those two different breeds
of dogs,” Duvall explained.
“It’s the same with our
cows. If we cross a Jersey
with a Holstein you’re
going to get both of those
Nicole Duvall asked kids about their favorite dairy treats when the Mobile
Dairy Classroom came to the Dawson County Satellite Library June 18.
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two different breeds.”
Duvall whipped out her
milking machine and dem
onstrated how cows get
milked on the farm. First,
the farmers sanitize their
hands then sanitize the
cows’ utters with pre-milk
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machine’s nozzles are gen
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cows have been milked, the
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through pasteurization and
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As an industry, Georgia
currently has 188,000 milk
ing cows across the state
and 99 percent of the dairy
farms are family owned.
After learning all about
dairy cows and the impor
tance of milk, kids had the
chance to go up to pet
Jazzy, careful only to touch
her face and side. Many
kids couldn’t hold back
their smiles as they reached
out to pet the docile bovine.
With over 40 kids mak
ing their way to the satellite
library, it was definitely a
big turnout for its first sum
mer reading program event.
The Mobile Dairy
Classroom is sponsored by
the Dairy Farm Families of
Georgia and commissioned
by the Department of
Agriculture.
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