—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, Way 6,1978 16 Gloomy cold weather (Continued from Page 16) area gets dry weather in the upcoming days after the rainy weather pattern has passed, the fruit situation should be fine. ‘Tm more concerned with the frost damage,” Blevins reported. Although he, like most fruit growers, states that he won’t know how much damage was incurred in his orchard, he ap proximates that he may have lost one-fourth of his crop. “I’ll know more in a couple of weeks,” the grower reported, adding that “They’re hurt, I know that.” For the most part, the lower areas were affected the most at Blevins Fruit Farm. Carlton Groff, of Groff’s Orchards, Street Road, Kirkwood, in southern Lancaster County, noted that he is finding damage where he didn’t expect to and not finding damage where he thought he would. “I see more strawberries frozen than I expected,” he told Lancaster Farming, but the tart cherries and peaches weren’t hurt as much as he had envisioned. “I would have thought that with the cold weather last week the cherry pollination might not be good,” he commented, “but even though it’s really too early to tell for sure, it looks fine to me.” Groff does say that he has more than an ample amount of bees to take care of his orchard. In sizing up the damage done to his crop, Groff points out that he “wouldn’t rate the losses as economic.” “We always fret and frown at this time of the year and then we end up better than we expected,” he notes. And, even though other fruit growers expressed concern for the rainy weekend ahead, Groff looked at it op timistically. J ]y "llz } ?^ '"'" y^y-f^t y xr:i ■ -rvas FOR THE LIFE OF YOUR SOIL! Use Medina on your corn, beans, vegetables, or any fruit and produce. IF IT’S WORTH GROWING! IT'S WORTH MEDINA! nwnuuntsoNS.Mt. 823 Fritztown Rd. Sinking Springs, PA 215-678-5009 JOHN I MARTIN R.D. 1. New Holland, PA 717-354-5848 SHUEV’S SALES I SERVICE Ono, PA 717-865-4915 GEORGE V. SIEPEI G SON RFD fr 2. Van Buren Rd. Easton, PA 2.5 258 7146 DAVID WEAVER Rt *5 Wellsboro, PA WARREN R. GOOD Bortimansville. PA 215-445-5374 “The way it’s been dry lately, I think the rain will do me more good than harm,” he believes. As for the future, Groff says there is little left to do but go about business and pray. “I think I have a good site,” he commented, speaking of the hilly area in southern Lancaster County, “and you just have to know where it will frost and where it won’t. That’s the key to the orchard business.” Still another fruit grower in Lancaster County is un concerned for the weekend ahead due to advance preparation. Fred Funk, who operates Funks Farm Market, in Millersviile, finally has his irrigation system all set up after scurrying to make up for manufacturer delays. Last weekend had been a frustrating few days for Funk who tried to beat the Sunday frost warnings to irrigate his 12 acres of strawberries. He reported that he and three to five other workers had spent four I DOES YOUR FARM EQUIPMENT HAVE 5i % DIESEL PROBLEMS????? | tl Contact us \. MILLER DIESEL INC 3 Specializing in Diesel fuel injection pumps and injectors % 6030 Jonestown Rd. Harrisburg, Pa. 17112 % (, 717-545-5931 \ Interstate 81 Exit 26 /< In addition to our repair service, we offer a fast ~ ' exchange system for fuel injection pumps, in- < jectors and governors. Let us solvp your diesel problems. 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