—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, Way 6,1978
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Gloomy cold weather
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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.
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“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
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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
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strawberries. Parts for the
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Friday after which Funk and
workers hurriedly tried to
beat Sunday’s frost.
“We did irrigate about six
acres or so, but we lost a few
of those around the outside
edges,” he reports. Funks
also lost six rows of early
varieties which they didn’t
get irrigated. This came to
about % of an acre.
The frost warnings are of
more concern to Funks than
to most growers since they
have more early varieties
than the average fruit
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blossoms that they irrigated
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