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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27,1978
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mented that his com was
planted on schedule and
looked good. His biggest
concern was bis wheat.
“My wheat’s just not so
good,” he related. “It’s not
as tall, and it won’t give as
much straw. Winter was
awfully hard on it.”
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up, hay
good as
another fanner echoed the
concern about the wheat.
“My wheat’s shorter than
usual because of the dry
period earlier this year,” he
explained. “But I’m hoping
to have nice grain. Often
when the wheat is shorter,
the grain is nicer.”
Chester County farmers
estimate around % of the
com is planted and some is
as high as four inches
already. With two to three
nice days, the rest of the
com will be planted and the
farmers will turn to cutting
hay.
“It’s perfect hay, beautiful
alfalfa,” one stated. “I
haven’t seen any cut yet, but
it will start shortly. ”
There are a few reports in
Chester County of field com
rotting.
“In a few spots, the cbm
was just planted too deep,”
the farmers agreed, “Water
laid in the fields and the com
just rotted. Some varieties of
corn were worse than
others.” They estimated
about five per cent of the
com was hurt in this way.
There was also some
A soon to be familiar sight is the baling of the hay as farmers intend to start cutting shortly, weather
cooperating.
report of erosion from the
fields but this too seemed to
be minimal in the fanning
reports. Especially among
those who commented on the
conservation practices they
used such as contour strips
and terraces, the gullies
seemed to be few and minor.
A Lebanon County farmer
stated that more or less all
the corn was planted and he
had seen quite a lot around
three inches high.
“I’ve heard a few reports
of some com rotting, but I
haven’t seen any,” was his
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reply. “And that rain did
wonders for the hay. I’ve
seen one person starting to
cut his hay, and that was last
week. So it got caught in the
rain.”
One York County farmer s
estimated that about 50 to 75
per cent of the com is in that
county.
“We had a nice day on
Thursday,” was his com
ment. “It’s not bad in the
fields now but it had been
wet. I imagine the rest of the
com will be put in shortly.”
He added that the moisture
content in the soil now was
good, real good.
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Another farmer from that
county commented on the
hay. “It looks pretty-good
over here,” he said. “I’ve
seen lots of good hay and a
few farmers are starting to
cut the alfalfa now.”
Finally, from Berks
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County the comment was
that around 75 per cent of the
corn is planted with the rest
going in the ground shortly.
There were no reports of hay
cut yet, but some fanners
thought that it too would be
done shortly.
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