—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19, 1964 8 Late com on the John J. Herr Farm, R.D. 1, Mt. Joy. Field was planted about July 4th and is coming into tassle at about two to three feet high, L. F. Photo • Drought (Continued from Page 1) planted. Although it was plant ed in early June, this tobacco was only about 12 inches'high.- Mumma thought that if the rain would come on and the frost would hold off, he might get a crop in three to four weeks. It’s possible. At Henry E. Garber’s farm, Elizabethtown Rl, the early corn looked good. The alfalfa looked better than a lot I saw later in other areas, but it was not what it should have been. Garber had planted a new field of alfalfa about foui weeks ago At first glance, it looked like a freshly disked field, but closer examination revealed a few struggling plants. Germination was very uneven, and growth appeared at a standstill I had been told that the southern end of the County was in better shape crop-wise than the northern and north western sections. Time didn’t permit investigation of that fact. However, I did get down as far as Jay C Garber’s farm at Lancaster R 6, below New Danville. His early corn was excellent and he felt the yield would rival that of a good year. It was there that I saw the only really good “late” corn. It had been planted in early June after a rye crop was taken off the field This was nearly a month eailier than some of the late coin that followed barley on some other farms Apparently the timing had been just about right because, in spite of an entry in his lecord book for June 30 that said, “hot . . dry, last planting of coin about six inches high and shriveled,” that corn present ly stands about eight to nine feet tall, and will go into the silo next week It is well-eared and gieen (a color I didn’t see too muco of anywheie that day) Garber has a faim pond that is completely fed by ter raced fields which drain down a waterway into a diversion ditch and then into the pond He used the pond this year to put about two inches of wa ter on his late tomatoes in early August They looked ex cellent, and are now being picked In addition to his daily crop diaiy, Garber keeps a iccord of rainfall at the faim Foi May (including a storm on the last of April which gave 3 7 inches) he iccorded 395 inch es of rain June lainfall amounted to only 8 inches, July including the flash flood on the 3rd, dumped 8 5 inches of water bn the' thirsty field's/ It got dry again in August with .9 inches put down by two storms. To-date in Sep tember, he had recorded only one shower, that was on the 11th and totaled .7 inches. To tal rainfall at the Garber farm from May to Septem ber 16 was 14.85 inches. This was about two-thirds of the normal amount for Lancaster New John Deere 237 Corn Picker • New Gathering Ability • New Husking Rolls • New Snapping Speed • New Elevator Capacity Alan Beyer Christiana LY 3-5687 Wenger Implement Co. Buck BU 4-4467 Landis Bros. Inc. Lancaster 393-3906 A. B. C. Groff, Inc. Shotzberger's \cw Holland 354-8001 Elm 665-2141 H. S. Newcomer & Son M. S. Yearsley & Sons Mt. Joy 653-3361 West Chester 696-2990' ’'/A, ' County from Apyl.to Septem ber 7th (normal figure accord ing to the Crop Reporting Service, 22.18 inches), and many of the county’s north western farms did not fare nearly as well. I next swung to the north east of Lancaster and visited the Miles Fry farm at Ephrata R 3. Here again the brown, dry fingers of drought held. the land in its firm grip. Fry showed me one field, of late sweet corn (lochief and Gold en Cross Bantam) that had seldom failed to yield plenty of good roasting ears right up till frost. This year it is stunted, shriveled, and the lo chief is tasseled-out at about three-foot high, and will yield nothing. Fry showed me a hilltop corn field that in 1956 had yielded about 126 bushels per acre. The corn in this field was planted about mid-way this year, and the yield will be a long way from that rec ord. The plants showed pre mature browning, and the height and ear size were well below normal. This early corn was probably the hardest hit that I saw all day. By con trast, his corn field at the bot tom of the hill that won him second place in the county in the Dekalb Corn Contest in (Continued on Page 9) No. 300 Series Com And Bolei Elevator t* -es *V / SPECIAL DROUGHT REPORT v 4* > « * *4f, »> f X* * See any alfalfa? Henry E. Garber, R.D. 1, Eliza bethtown, put seed in there somewhere about four weeks ago. 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