—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 24, 1958
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Vegetable Growers Focus Attention
On Growing Use of Irrigation
Some 175 county vegetable
gi owers heard the pros and cons
of ungation discussed Tuesday
at a meeting held at t'he Guernsey
Breeders Sales Pai ihon
Amos H Funk. R 1 Millersvillc.
chanman of a panel discussion on
the subiect, said that inigation is
emoying a tiemendous gam
throughout the nation He cited
figures showing that since 1950
the use of irrigation in Lancas
t»r County has giown by some 771
per cent The total acres under
inigation now, he said, amount to
S 342 as compared to 433 in 1950
Funk pointed out further that
in Missouri the use of irrigation
gained 440 per cent in four years
and that in Virginia 110 new sys
terns were added in six months
From 1949 to 1954 farmers in
Ohio went from 5,000 to 25,000
acres under irrigation while the
acreage irrigated during the same
time in Tennessee zoomed from
1 000 acres to 22,000 acres
The East still far behind
tne West in total acres, he noted.
While 145,000 acies are irrigated
Grand Champion Pen of Lambs Bring
David Lapp Price of $1.25 a Pound
(Continued from page IV Bros, 28 cents; Janet Gibble,
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Mary K Keene, Southdowns, 294, Harold Sangrey, Hampshires,
Medford’s Inc., 40 cents; Mary 400, Bonacurso; 23 Va cents, David
Ann Hess, Hampshires, 363, S. Witmer, Cheviots, 282, Medford’s
Bonacurso, 25 cents,3 Darvm 34 cents and Donald Wiggins,
Bopd. Shropshircs, 378, Seachnst Shropshires, 318, A & B, 33 cents
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'in the 25 Eastern slates, the 11
Western states irrigate a stagger
ing 20,00,000 acres
The meeting was also the scene
of several presentations ol awards
to giowets with high yields
John Ewell, New Holland, and
Cloyd Wenger, R 5 Lancaster, each
were cited for lima bean produc
tion Ewell raised 2,400 pounds an
acie and Wenger showed a total
ol 2,100 pounds to the acre
Named master tomato grower
foi the second time in three years
was Clarence H Harmsh. R 7 Lan
caster He made a recqrd of 24 3
tons of tomatoes an acre without
benefit of supplemental water. In
1955 he made a record yield of
24 8 tons to the acre
Jay Garber, R 6 Lancaster, had
the top yield of peas, producing
2,767 pounds to the acre. Second
was David Bauman, Lititz, with a
yield of 2,330 pounds an acre.
Harmsh said that as many as
12 tons of tomatoes ripened at
one time in his 9 3 acre field dur
ing the peak of the season He
also maintains a 30 cow Guernsey
herd
DISCUSSING THE EFFECTS of irriga
tion and some of their findings was this
panel at the Vegetable Growers meeting
Tuesday. They are, from left, the Rev
Emory Herr, Ronks; Jacob Click, Smoke
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