—jafifesfer Saturday. Oct- 16; 1976 14 Farm Calendar [Continued from Page 10] mers meeting. “Animal Health Problems” by Dr. Walter Trumebauer. Ephrata Senior High School at 7:49 p.m. Lebanon County Farmer’s Association meeting at Schaefferstown Fire Hall at 7 p.m. Lancaster Town Fair begins today, held Oct. 19 to 20, sponsored by First Presbyterian Church, St. James Episcopal Church, Temple Beth El, YWCA, and Lancaster County Library. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Crafts, exhibits. Unit No. 1, NEBA Annual Dinner Meeting at Stanton Grange Hall at 7:15 p.m. Commercial Pesticide Applicator Category Training Session. Topic is Turf Pests and their control, at Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Enrollment through the Extension Service. Wednesday, Oct. 20 Lancaster County Farmer’s Association Farm Promotion at Park City Shopping Mall. All day. Craft demonstrations at 1-3 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Personnel Management Workshop at Lancaster Farm and Home Center. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. - “Styles of Management- Human Motivation” is topic. LCVATA meeting in Brownstown at 4:15 p.m. Lewistown Grange No. 1639, Social Hall, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21 Lancaster Co. Farmers’ Association Farm Promotion. Craft Maryland [Continued from Page 10] tember, and-,October check the current crop’s progress. Full details on production and harvested acreage are collected in late November and appear in SRS’s Annual Crop Summary the following January. The Maryland office also publishes periodic reports to keep its tobacco growers and other producers abreast of current crop conditions. Each spring, the office releases an annual summary of production, yield, and harvested acres by in dividual counties. “Nearly all our crop is produced in only five demonstrations at 1-3 p.m., butter making at 2 p.m., beef demon strations at 3 to 7 p.m., Grand Squares professional square dancing group at 7:30-9 p,m. Land policy program for Pennsylvania presen tation at Mount Joy Vo- Tech, Mt. Joy at 7:30 p.m. Somatic Cell Counting project meeting at Farm and Home Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 Little Dutchman Snowmobile Show at Lebanon Valley Mall. Safety course. Lancaster County Farmers’ Association farm promotion. Crafts from 1- 3 p.m., beef demon- stration at 3 - 7 p.m. "Ventriloquist and magician, Brubaker at 8 p.m. York Holstein Banquet, Avalong’s, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28 Little Dutchman Snowmobile Show at Lebanon Valley Mall. Safety course. - Lancaster County Farmers’ Association farm promotion at Park City. Craft demonstrations at 1 - 3 p.m. and 7 - 9 p.m. Butter making at 2 p.m. Steve Brubaker, ven • triloquist. Square dan cing at center of mall 7-9 p.m. Decorated milk can given away. New Jersey Hereford Association Feeder Calf sale at Hackettstown Auction Market. 1 p.m. National Farmers’ Organization Penn- southern counties,” explains Witzig,” where the tobacco flourishes in the light sandy soils along the Chesapeake Bay. “Last year, the five counties produced an estimated 21.9 million pounds of tobacco, grown on roughly 23,000 acres. Both yield and production dropped considerably due to adverse weather during the growing season. “Just the year before, though, yields stood at an all time high of 1,260 pounds an acre, resulting in a final harvest of around 30.2 million pounds worth $28.9 million to Maryland growers.” 4 Winds whip through York County causing damage By JOYCE BUPP York County Reporter YORK, Pa. - It was an “ill wind bearing no good” that swept through York County early last Saturday morning, leaving twisted, flattened corn fields and dropped apples in its wake. Com growers all agreed on one thing - bushels lost per acre would mount fast when equipment could be safely put back on the sodden ground. Charles Hess, a top com grower, would not place the blame for flattened corn on any one factor. “Much had to do with the varieties used. It’s the time to check test plots and see just which ones did stand best,” he said. The worst damage to Hess’ 220 acres was on the tops of hills, and up the hillsides. His acreage is near Dallastown. sylvania State meeting at the Holiday Inn, State College, 11 a.m. York DHIA banquet at Avalong’s. 7:30 p.m. NAIL DOWN GREAT CORN AT A GREAT PRICE. SEE YOUR STANFORD SEED DEALER BEFORE OCTOBER 15 With 400 acres of high yielding com already in the bins, John Shearer, York R 6, was eager to get back in the fields to better assess the damages. “We’ll start in the no’till fields,” he, added. “They weren’t quite as heavily populated and didn’t go down so badly.” John had been harvesting an estimated 150 bushels to the acre of wet com, with stalks that had shot up to 12 feet. “I measured them!” he em phasized. “With the better machinery we have these days, we should be able to pick much of it up - but, it’s going to be tough on machinery. That’ll mean more down time while we repair things.” Paul "McPherson, Maple Lawn Farms in New Park, farms both com and fruit, and therefore, took a double walloping. “My corn damage was spotty, and I don’t have the faintest reason why. It might have been some insect damage; or perhaps certain soil types caused the problem,” he noted. In any commodity, the first damage is to the profit. Apple growers were feeling that profit loss, while assessing alternate ways to use the fruit shaken to the ground by the up-to-50-mile per hour winds. Stanley Brown, who operates Brown Orchards at Loganville, feels they probably lost about 10 per cent of the Stayman and Rome varieties, “A lot of them can be marketed as seconds, but of course they only bring half the price of first-quality fruit. One week earlier, though, and it would have taken our entire crop of Red Delicious. We just finished picking them,” he said. 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Box 230, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. X 9462 processed for cider," so it’s not a total loss. Stewartstown grower, Glenn Shaw, also had drops to use, but “not as many as if it had been last year; then we would have been in real trouble.” He felt that more' stable marketing conditions in the industry this year would help in cushioning the losses. Any way you look at it, corn-eating pheasants and cider-lovers will be the benefactors of Saturday’s storm. To Carve Pork Loin - j For easier carving, havMP the meat retailer loosen the chine (back) bone by sawing across the rib bones. When roasting is finished, the back bone can be removed easily by running the carving knife along the edge of the roast before the meat is placed on the platter to be carved. I®
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