16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 16, 1961 Crop Summary Tobacco Growers Need Breezes Lancaster County tobacco and out of the sheds, farmers were figuratively Tomato harvest continues hOid-ng their breath this j n the county with exception week Reports from around ally heavy yields being re the county indicates the hea- ported. Many farmers with vy crop of the aromatic weed o ut contracts for their crop is going into the sheds at a report the red fruits going rapid rate. Weather, while begging for a market. The very warm, was also humid green crop was one of the with drying of the crop not best on record with some exceptionally fast. However farmers reporting upwards there is little reported dam- of $l,OOO per acre from the age to the stored crops and green picking. However farmers were hoping for the green picking has come to a breezes to continue until halt and growers report some of the high moisture trouble finding open markets content ih out of the stalks for their ripe fruits OUR PRICES CAN’T NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY the No. 15 FIELD HARVESTER Chops ed McCormick Farm Equip. Store David Kurtz J. Paul Nolt EPHRATA MORGANTOWN GAP RE 3 2283 AT B-5771 HI 2-4183 C. B. Hoober Cope & Weaver Co. INTERCOURSE WILLOW STREET J. B. Hostetter & Sons C. E. Wiley & Son Kauffman Bros. MOUNT JOY QUARRYVTLLE - WAKEFIELD MOUNTVTLLE OL 3-3721 ST 6-2895 AT S-9151 BE BEAT! with with SO 8 3501 Pastures, which have re mained in good condition throughout most of the seas on, are beginning to show signs of dry weather in some sections. Farmers indicate lower milk production re flects the shorter, pasture and the hot, humid’weather which keeps the cow’s in the shade during -much of the day. Green stalks and leaves with the husks beginning to dry indicates the htarting of a good maturity period for the county corn crop. Very few fields throughout the county show any firing of the leaves but much of the crop is be ginning to loosen iri the husks. Silo filling is occupy ing the time of farmers with out tobacco crops. Exception ally heavy silage corn crops the the Biggest! Lowest I use your No. 15 THREE WAYS I Now you can chop row crops at a 40-ton-per hour clip... then switch to cutter bar or wind row pickup in 10 minutes or less! It’s the new McCormick® No. 15 Field Harvester. You’d expect the cost of a unit that’s this fast in the field ... this versatile ... to be out of reach of the family-size farm. Yet the No. 15 is priced with the lowest cost multiple-head choppers on the market! What’s more, it gives you up to 60% more chopping capacity than anything in its price class. Power requirements are low, too. The No. 15 can be pto-driven by a 2-3-plow tractor. Visit us and see all the IH quality features—, features that will keep your new No. 15 field harvester chopping years longer. Watch pull in feeding and high-speed aprons compress the crop . .. chop a wagon-full hi just a few minutes. We invite coxnparison with any other field harvester in this price class. See the No, 15 before you buy! Ask about our IH Income Purchase Plan See it.,. Try it Today at-~ EX 3-2824 are reported. The combination of hot Fall seeding is beginning weather and warm nights has and plowing for fall seeding helped speed com to matun continues at a speeded-up ty. Corn has entered the ra.e August plantings of al- dented stage in all sections falfa look good in most parts and some early fields are ma of the county, but rain is ture needed by some of the fields. The weekly crop and wea ther summary of the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service issued Tuesday shows that farm activity has enter ed autumn and the final har vest stage. Farmers are planting win ter wheat and barley for next year’s harvest, while others continue with fall plowing, and start fall potato harvest. Peach harvest is past its peak in most areas. The hot humid weather speeded the ripening process and it is ex pected that harvest will be completed in southern Penn sylvania this week. The weather has also fav ored apple development. Mc- Intosh apples will be ready for harvest this week m east central areas.. Fall potato growers have diggers in the field in some southeastern counties. The humid weather stopped some fall potato digging last week in Lehigh County. In Potter County, farmers are killing vines and potato harvest should start by next week. Both red and light skinned potatoes are being harvested with fine quality in the Erie County region. [shavings] | HAROLD B. ZOOK : ■ 220 LAMPETER ROAD LANCASTER. PA. ■ ■ PHONE EX 4-5412 S ■ ■ ■ • CLEAN DRY PINE S • SEMI DRY PINE S • MIXED ■ BAGS OR BULK DELIVERIES OVER’2 TON AND ■ TRAILER LOAD PRICES r IIIIIIIIIIIfIIIIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIk SLEEK, STRONG-BONE • ** v , Hsi£ ' !■“ *>'■’*s•» y i, .£< >N ?< • +/*•, .v v •>■ v * on New FORMuIo Wayne Calf Starter •e’s an ideal creep feedl New FORM—new FORMULAI Sp< texture and formulation gets calves on dry feed early. F° an antibiotic, vitamins, minerals and proteins, new FOI 'ne Calf Starter grows sleek, bright-eyed, strong-boned o H. M. STAUFFER J. C. WALKER & SON, In & SON'S, Inc. Gap Witmer - Ronks - Leola MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE R. D. 2, Columbia SUNSHINE FARM SUPPLY Lititz & Newmanstown IHTCKNATIOHAI HAftVttUft K. STAUFFER & SON HERSHEY BROS- Lawn & Bellaire He.nholds -IME VALLEY MILLS ROSS C. ULRICH. R. D. 1. Willow StreeJ "ft. D. 2, Peach i v < New FORMula Wayne Calf Starter • Coarse, Uniform Texture Calves Like • 10.6% Faster Gain —14% Less Feed* • No Growth Leg After Weaning • Antibiotic Fortification Helps Prevent Scours • Tasfler —-Oats Calves On Dry Feed Earlier *ln Reieereb Farm tnft c»mp«r«W t» pravFaui f«ad>. MILLERSVILLE ROHRER'S MILL S^ P f LY f°‘ _ _ , „ . Millersville R.D. I, Ronks _ E. SAUDER & SONS GRUBB SUPPLY R. D. 1. East Earl Elisabethtown Two Farms Sell Over $120,000 Two farms in East Dru more Township, the estate of the late Albert H. Frit,;, were sold for a total of $l2O - at public auction Tues day. The largest of the two farms, adjoining each othei along the west side of Route 222 about Vz mile south ol Quarryville, was purchased by Ernest Mellinger, Ronks Rl, for $88,750. The farm contained 182 acres and nine perches. The 124 acres and 108 perches in the second farm brought $32,100 from Emoij Wagner of Kirkwood. Executors of the estate, F. Marion Fritz, Florence M. Keefer, Clair L. Wade and the Lancaster County National Bank, conducted the sale. Kersey Bradley was the Auctioneer. Advertisers will be glad to have you mention Lancas ter Farming when answering advertisements. m \m &
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