A barn raising was held at the Clarence Gelsinger Farm , Robesonia, on
Thursday afternoon. The original barn had burned of an unknown cause on Aug.
5. On Sept. 7 approximately 65 to 70 neighbors helped to raise the new
Huy harvest continues to look good
By KENDACE BORRY
LITITZ This Summer
has continued to be a good
season for the haymaking,
according to reports
received at- Lancaster
Pears, apples showing effects of hard Spring
ByKENDACE BORRY
LITITZ The pear
Harvest is just about over,
and the majority of or
chardists aie calling the
Tomato crdp hurt by heat and rain
ByKENDACEBORRY
LITITZ Exactly how
good or bad the tomato
harvest is in the Lancaster
Farm sold for $7625 per acre
LEOLA A Lancaster
County farm in the East Earl
Township was sold for $282,
125, or $7,625 per acre last
Saturday, September 2.
The farm, sold by Mr. and
Mrs. Freeland D. Sensenig,
is located between Far*
mersville and Brownstown
on the Farmerville Road.
Sold through auction, the
farm was bought by
neighbors of the former
owners, and now is the
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Farming. Different farmers
told of good crops, with the
rains over the last few,
months making more tons of
hay of about average
quality.
crop fair to average this
year. The crop depended a
lot on its location in the
orchard, with some growers
relating that they had few to
Farming area is this year,
depends on who you talk to,
but there is one item that
tomato growers all agree on-
property of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy E. Hoover, Leola Rl.
This is believed to be the
highest price paid per acre
for a farm located tn the
Lancaster County area this
year.
The farm consists of 37
acres, a twp story brick
house, with a barn, tobacco
shed, and an implement
shed. It was sold because its
former owners are retiring
from farming.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9,1978
About the biggest problem
reported on was the rain,
and the trouble getting the
hay out of the fields. But few
reported rained-on-hay,
saying that there was not a
no pears .this year while
others noted that they had a
good crop.
• The problem with the
pears, as in a lot of the other
-that both the demand and
the price of tomatoes could
be better.
Ben Warfel, of Ben Warfel
According to auctioneer
John E. Martin, Ephrata Rl,
the auction took about 40
minutes. Five people of the
approximate 200 attending
the auction placed bids. All
of those interested in the
farm were considering using
the land for farming.
According to reports
received at Lancaster
Farming, the farm will be an
addition to the Hoover’s
current 76 acre dairy farm
operation.
structure. At the time of the fire 142 steers and 165 hogs were in the barn. All
but seven steers and 10 hogs were evacuated. The new barn will measure 52
feet by 116 feet. Additional pictured of the barn raising appear.on Pages 14-16.
great deal on the market.
Most of the hay that was hurt
by the weather went directly
to the mushroom houses
where it is used.
Three cuttings of alfalfa
fruit crops grown in the
Lancaster Farming area,
was the unusual weather
which occurred this past
Spring. A lot of the pear buds
and Sons, an independent
broker dealing in tomatoes,
located at Quarryville,
i elated that the hot sun and
the rain of the last couple of
weeks has destroyed a lot of
1 the Globe type of tomatoes.
He stated that the fanners
raising the coreless tomato
crop would make twice as
much this year as those
growing the Globe round
variety.
Warfel believes that up to
50 per cent of the crop of
Globe tomatoes has been lost
in the last three weeks alone,
due to the extreme heat. But
now, he estimates that about
75 per cent of the tomatoes to
be harvested are in baskets,
and that he will only be
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Lancaster Farming photo by Laurel Schaeffer
seems to be the average
amount taken from the fields
this - year, although some
farmers told of hoping to get
four cuttings in. There were
reports of volunteer grass
were frozen out during the
cold spell, and then more of
the crop was hurt by poor
pollination which was due to
the wet spell of weather
which we had.
In Lancaster County, the
pear crop was reported as as
an average crop, with some
light spots reported in or
chards.
York County spoke of a
fair to good Bartlett pear
crop, also speaking of good
quality and nice size.
Adams County fruit
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Farm Calendar 10
Editorials 10
Solanco Fair 4249
Classifieds 50
Homestead Notes 82
Kendy’sKollumn 83
Jr. Cooking Edition 84
Doris Thomas 85
Joyce Bupp 86
Ida’s Notebook 87
Farm Women Calendar 88
growing up in the alfalfa,
with a lot of fox tail, which
was due to the large amounts
of rain.
Hay dealers seemed to
think that there will be quite
a bit of hay for sale this year,
due to big crops in upstate
and New York. Norman
Kolb, representing the New
Holland Sales Stables, New
Holland, said that he thought
that there wouldn’t be the
extremely high prices seen
last year, although he added
that there would always be a
demand for the very good
quality hay.
He told that he expects
prices to probably stay
basically the same as now,
.over the Winter, with the
normal seasonal increase.
Dick McDonald,
representing the Market
News Service of the Pa.
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Home on the Range 90
FFAgirl 92
Project Clearwater 94,96
Young veterinarians 103,114
Alfalfa selection 111
Parity pricing system 115
Beef prices 119
Goat news 120,136,137
Fishfarming 126
IF YE letter 127
Student farmer 130
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