Spearing tobacco will be a common sight in Lancaster
County fields for the next few weeks.
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Annual Tobacco Harvest Is Underway
Lancaster County tobacco har
vest proceeded rapidly this
week, although weather condi
tions were generally unfavor
able.
Max Smith, Lancaster County
ag agent, estimated about -one
third of the crop had been har
vested by Thursday of this
week.
He said most reports from
farmers indicate an over-all good
crop with plenty of weight.
He said the harvest is a little
late because of cool weather in
the early part of the growing
season
Recent cloudy and cool weath
er also has hampered harvest
For both cutting and curing,
farmers need dry, breezy and
sunny weather, he said
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 4,1971—9
Up, up goes the tL __ wi jrking as a .ee man
chain, Bill Fisher, bottom, hands a lath of tobacco to Dean
Eshleman, while Warren Eshleman, top, stacks the previous
lath near the roof of his tall tobacco barn. By keeping the to
bacco flowing steadily toward the ceiling, the three quickly
unloaded a wagon of tobacco and stacked it for curing.
Out in the field, youths load a tobacco wagon.
One of several of Warren Eshleman’s tobacco wagons
awaits its turn to be loaded with tobacco. A half dozen youths
are spearing tobacco on laths in the background. Eshleman is
growing 20 acres of tobacco at 825 Beaver Valley Pike this
year and he began harvesting Monday.