Irt the potato fields every day, Roger Hausamann and his family and har vesting crew can be found digging the crop as it reaches maturity. Potato crop {Continued from Page I] J» acres o£ potatoes and that part of the problem is YOUhE believes his earlv cron will that more potatoes have be below average this year. Iplanted1 planted in the South ||| fjjjf The main problem for him wluch adds to the number lIV VMfti this year has been rainfall - Rested and the market CUADE not enough for his crop to be I oB * l 0311 * absorb ad the AllAi C as good as he’d like. Insects cr £P- . .. .. I and diseases weren’t a vanety potatoes CUUvS major worry this growing Wolfe harvests mil be better ___ season, and now that he has yielding, Wolfe hopes, started harvesting, he hopes because they have had a S the rains will hold off. longer growing season and / “When harvesting,” Wolfe better growmg conditions. / related, “Too much rain can , Lets just hope that we 1/ be bad for a potato crop. The don t B®t too much ram now m, \ water gets into the potatoes HI harvest season vv. and is stored there and then Wolfe restated. Too much \ your crop won’t store and ram “a® delays the harvest \ keep as well.’ ’ which pushes into working in Wolfe isn’t too pleased die colder weather and that with the potato prices this always cu ts down on the year either. He explained potatoes, too. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Septembers. 1977 17
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