aiml Crop Summary Tobacco Harve Tobacco harvest has begun in the Garden Spot Very few crops have been cut up to this tunc, but scattered re ports from around the county indicate a fanly heavy crop is in protpect Many of the later crops have a lot ol growing to do yet and will not be ready to top for sev eral weeks Spiayed crops appear to be making growth about on a par with the hand suckered crops No report on curing has been received since so few lath have been hung in the sheds and since it has been harvested so recently Some growers have expressed the hope for lowered humidity before much more of the crop is ready for the drying sheds Muggy weather during the past several years at to bacco harvest time has re sulted in a great deal of soft tobacco at stripping time Small gram harvest is vir tually comp ete in the coun ty with just a few scattered fields of wheat still awaiting the combine One of the major activities on farms this week was the seeding of alfalfa Dry soil conditions in the extreme southern parts of the county are beginning to cause some wilting of tobacco and a slow down in corn develop ment, but the situation is not considered severe enough to cause any difficulty in es tablishing a ’egume stand Many pasture fields and lawns in southern Lancaster County and in the northern edge of Chester County are beginning to show brown The rest of the county has had ample moisture, and in some areas of reavy thundershow er activity, soils were too wet to work late in the week Corn is earing well and ap pears headed for a good yielding crop Color of the crop is excel 1 ent with no evidence of firing in any area of the county As anticipated fol 1 owing 2 weeks of warm, humid wea ther, an outbreak of late blight of potatoes was report ed Tuesday in the weekly crop and weather summary ® 4-H Wildlife (From page 1) herds After constructing a turk ey feeder m the camp area near Coudersport, the club members attended the Woods man’s Carnival at Cherry Springs State Park where they saw wildlife and con servation exhibits as well a sawing, log rolling and log chopping contests by the woodsmen Reporter for the club is Linda Stauffer, Lititz R 3 © DHIA (From Pase msh, Quarryvillo R 2 She produced 17,084 pounds of milk and 700 pounds of fat in 3C5 days She tested 4 1 per cent Only six other cows in the association had over 650 pounds of fat during the first 305 days of their lacta tion The Smucker and the Fritz and Harnish herds each had one other cow with over 650 pounds while Christ E Stoltzfus had two and Paul B Zimmerman, Ezra Martin, and Clair E Kreider each had one Other herds w’jji over a 55 pound average included J Wade Groff and Jacob N Good Harry Noll, Jr, R F and L A Witmcr, Lloyd Wolf, John J Oberho'tzer, Earl L Groff, Titus M Hurst, J Rohrcr Witmer, John U Stoltzfus and Jacob L Kurtz all produced over 50 pounds per cow during the month st Beginning of the Penna Crop Report ing Service The Service said that two instances of infection, both m Lehigh County, have been leported thus far Late blight is a downy mildew caused by a fungus It develops best when temperatures average 70 to 75 degrees and the rela tive humidity reaches the 90 per cent mark Late blight was responsib e for the 1845 potato famine in Ireland These same weather condi tions made hay making difli cu’t and slowed the harvest of wheat and oats However, the coin crop continues to make rapid growth and ins started to tass.e in northern counties (Pennsylvania vegetables are becoming available in most retail outlets Sweet com is being picked aero s No. 4 of a Series From HORNCO FEEDS improvements to serve business farmers! LOWER BETTER ONE MAN DOES THE WORK OF 5 FEEDS D. E. HORN & CO., Inc. york,pa. volume of sweet com should increase during this week Some picking of tomatoes for tresh market is started, but the bu k of the crop will not be ready for picking until next week Ear y Washington Boro tomatoes are now de clining in volume Snap beans continue to be harve te*d although slowing in volume in many parts o’ the state Some lima beans are expected to be ready for fresh market in about a week hut the processing crop will not be ready until early Sep tember The supply of cab bage moving to market is ex pected to increase during the next few days Summer apples and peach es are being- harvested D’s eases do not -appear to have affected the app’e crop, but red mites have been reported in some orchards. Grapes are m good condi tion in Erie County With ht t e disease damage Last week’s weather was favor- AUTOMATION farming program such Good Prices At ' dairy calf > steer m field crops, etc The Sl| , Zook Cow Sale vised farming program !s ' of the most importanl Top price of .$755 was paid of vocat i O nal ag.J,, 1 for cow and caL at the H -rough it a boy can r, l]t 1 L Zook dispersal sale last practlce what he W s ,' Saturday The average price classroom, Ayers sa.il on the top seven cows in the sale was $631 25 A Registered Holstein heif er bred to freshen in the fail sold for $560 and one 10 months old calf was bought for $5OO. Prices on the top seven cows ranged down to $540 The second through seventh highest prices were $750, $660, $605, $6OO, $590, $550 and $540 Dil'er and Kreider were the auctioneers at the com plete dispersal of the 40 reg istered Holstems on the Zook farm between Lancaster and Strasburg Clarence Lyons was in charge of pedigrees FEED COSTS SERVICE with “Service Makes The Difference” WKEH YOU BUY FROM THE HORNCO MAN WITH THE HORNCO PLAN! Todays business farmer should buy his feed from a company who can give the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible price. Hornco Feeds can offer you this quality price advantage because of their new automated mill. Let Horn co Feeds increase your profits by keeping labor costs per ton of feed at a minimum Photo shows the automatic tapping scales and electric feed carrying belts of the new Hornco mill. This automation keeps labor costs per ton of feed low. One- mar can tap 12 bags of feed per minute job of 5 men in an old style mill Phone 2-7867 (From page §T For those boys r , j, the opportunity a>\i pursue college tr t ,ir. ms , agriculture, the coin 0 ~, ca'iona 1 Agncuhurc p rQv a sound foundation f,/ lege work Student .. proper guidance 1 col’ege entrance leo ments. Ayres, a June gr ~, The Penn~ylvan a st ,( e versity said, any interested in taking Uiov tional Agriculture tt _, and any parent in ih c £ CI ta area who desires s fur information about n, - !re ed to contact him at high school
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