Claude Hetherington wins state tomato grower award
Claude Hclherington, of on 30 acres, has been named
Zion Grove, who produced a Slate Chamipon Tomato
785 tons of usable tomatoes Grower for 1975 in the hand
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harvest 25 to 50 arrr class,
according to David L
Kanlncr. Schuylkill County
Agricultural Agent
Hcthcrington received on
engraved plaque for his
tomato production and
recordkeeping practices at
ceremonies during the an
nual Vegetable Growers
Conference on the Penn
State University Campus
The State Champion
Tomato Growers Club is
sponsored by the Penn State
Cooperative Extension
Service and Pennsylvania
tomato processors
Hethenngton, a tomato
grower for 30 years,
qualified for the award by
producing an average of
26 17 tons per acre.
Tomatoes, cabbage, and
potatoes are his most im
portant sources of farm
income.
The tomato crop was
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planted between May 15 and
June 15 Spacing was 36
inches between rows and
approximately 20 inches
between plants With a 95
percent stand, this was
equivalent to about 8,300
plants per acre
According to Robert F
Fletcher. Penn State Ex
tension vegetable crops
specialist, who made the
award presentation, a
starter solution was applied
at planting time A 6-12-6-2
fertilizer was plowed down
on 15 acres with 300 pounds
also applied in bands on each
side of the row. On the other
15acres, 1,000 pounds of 6-12-
6-2 was all banded with the
transplanter.
Treflan was incorporated
into the sod before planting
and the crop was cultivated
four times. Two daughters,
Myrtle and Dawn, and Mrs
Hethenngton do all the
cultivating
Four a>_ j of Red Rock
an'l 26 acres of 1370 varieties
were planted Local labor
was used to harvest the crop.
A field supervisor handled
the picking operations and
there were no serious labor
problems at harvest time.
Harvest labor and field
management costs
amounted to about 30 cents
per basket, Professor
Fletcher points out. The
tomatoes were emptied into
boxes and hauled to a
loading area where a fork
lift was used to dump the
boxes into trailers used for
delivery to the processor.
A good pesticide control
program was followed, using
five insecticide and eight
fungicide applications. Two
insecticide sprays were put
on early with a weed sprayer
and the remainder of the
sprays were applied by
helicopter.
Hetherington attributes
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 13.1976
Claude Hetherington, left, received the Cham
pion Tomato Grower Award plaque from Robert F.
Fletcher, extension vegetable crops professor at
Penn State.
his high yield to good
growing weather, the fer
tility program, good pest
control program, and ideal
local help for harvesting the
crop “As long as I can get
boys and girls and other
*30.2 billion loaned
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Loans made to farmer? and
farmer cooperatives through
the Farm Credit System
during 1975 increased 10
percent from the year
earlier to a record total of
$30.2 billion, according to a
report issued today by the
Farm Credit Ad
ministration.
Loans outstanding at
December 31, 1975, stood at
$31.7 billion, another record
and an increase of 15.8
percent from the $27.4 billion
for the System a year
earlier. Net worth of the
local help, I would never use
migrant labor again,”
Hethenngton said
In 1976, he plans to expand
his acreage to about 55 if
processors’ contracts are
available
System represented
primarily by members’
capital stock and ac
cumulated savings totaled
$4.1 billion at year end, up
13.9 percent from the $3.6
billion a year earlier.
The 10 percent gain in
loans made represents a
slackening in the pace of
farm borrowings from
recent years. Figures from a
year ago showed loans made
increasing by 16.5 percent,
while 1973 borrowings
through the System jumped
40 percent from 1972 figures.
°Let us
never forget
that the
cultivation of
the earth is
the most
important
labor*ofman.
OANIEL WEBSTER
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