16—Lancaster farming. Saturday. May 21, 1960
• Row Crops
(From page I) two farms. All the acreags
gram is hogs and steers, at the Peach Bottom RD.
•‘But we are always chang- farm, located near Pleasant
ing our methods.” Says Her- Grove; has been planted, and
shey, “Any time we can save weather condition is the on
money or do a job easier, ly hold up on the home farm
we are not afraid to make as well.
Most of the
Tomatoes are one of the tion is managed .by the sons
big crops in the operation, since the father has interests
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in other business ventures.
During the off seasons the
Ressler partnership handles
most of the farm work, but
during seasons of peak work
load they rely heavily on
migrant labor.
At the present time four
workers from Puerto Rico
are on the work force. Dur
ing harvest time, they will
be joined by others from
Puerto Rico or other coun
tries. Last year, most of the
tomato picking was done on
a contract basis by a crew
of workers from Mexico.
During the early part of
this week, tomatoes were
going into the field oh the
Pleasant Grove farm with
the fertilizer already in the
ground and waiting" for them.
“This year we used dry
fertilizer.” Hershey said,
“We could have saved about
a dollar per acre with liquid
fertilizer, but we would have
had to spread it ourselves,
and with the weather like it
was, we got it spread by
truck so we could go ahead
and plow,”
About 1,000 pound per
acre of a complete fertilizer
was plowed down. One
pound of 16-32-16 starter-fer
tilizer is dissolved in each 50
gallons of water in the trans
planter tank at planting
time, but no other fertilizer
is applied until after the
first cultivation.
Hershey believes that the
tomato plants need a boost
later in the season, there
fore the crop is side dressed
again with a complete fertili
zer. The fertilizer this year
is compounded with a Muri
ate of Potash rather than the
sulphate form, because re
search has shown the Kes
slers that 'quality of the
fruit is better if the muriate
form is used.
But chemical fertilizer is
not counted on to solve the
international
MECHANIZATION IS ONE OF THE KEYS to the
farming operation of the Ressner, brothers. During tomato
planting time, this truck-mounted tank, is pressed into ser.
•dice. A gasoline powered pump on the rear of the truck
bed fills the tank from a stream or pond and, when hos«
are reversed, fills the planter tank. The equipment is V era
tile- in that the tank can be removed from the truck when
not needed for hauling water to the field. - —LF PHOTO
entire fertility program on
the farms. Barnyard manure
is applied-and plowed down
on all tomato ground and on
as much of the rest of the
farm as the supply will cov
er.
The soil on the Pleasant
Grove farm is shaley and
has a tendacy to dry out in
the summer months, “But
the crops do-not show dam
age near as quickly since we
are getting the organic mat
ter content built up.” Hersh
ey said. “This soil works up
easily. We don’t work it too
fine, because that is one of
the quickest ways to burn
but your organic matter.” he
continued.
In addition to the 80 acres
of tomatoes and 100 acres of
corn, the partnership plans
to plant 20 acres of cauli
flower this year. Last year,
the Kesslers planted the crop
on a trial basis. Because of
the very hot weather during
the flowering stage many of
the flowers were not top
quality and the venture was
Authority on
not a financial success, but
Hershey believes they learn
ed enough about the crop to
make it a profitable one for
them.
' Careful - management 0 f
the soil to prevent loss of
nutrients by water runoff, at
tention to the organic mat
ter content of the soil thru
applications of manure and
management of crop residue
and cover crops, and the ap
plication of the right kind
and amount of chemical fer
tilizers have meant mcreas
ing yields each year in a
row crop farming operation
on land that is anything but
level.
iThe Resslers have proved
that continuous intensive
cultivation need not mine the
fertility out of a farm, but
can even help build it for the
future
Lititz 4-H Club
Holds Election
Shirley Clark was elected
president of the Lititz com
munity 4-H Sewing Club at
a recent meeting at the home
of Mrs. Samuel Hevenei, of
Lititz R 2. *
Other officers elected in
elude Cynthia Bucher, vice
president, and Mary Alice
-Graybill, secretary-treasurer
Miss Clark was also elect
ed representative to the Lan
caster County 4-H council
Shavings
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HAROLD B: ZOOK
220 Lampeter Road
.LANCASTER, PA.
Phone EX 4-5412
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