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growers tended to call the
pear harvest poor, citing the
frozen buds as the main
problem responsible for the
light crop. They spoke of
high prices for pears this
year, and noted that a
problem that they had this
Summer with the Persilla,
which was so bad that it
could have killed some of the
Farm Bureau opposes
Carter’s energy plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The president of the nation's
largest farm organization
has urged the U.S. Senate to
reject the conference report
on a key section of President
Carter’s energy plan.
Allan Grant, head of the
nearly three-million
member-family American
Farm Bureau Federation,
says the organization
strongly opposes the seven
year “phased-in” decontrol
of natural gas pricing, heart
of the administration
supported conference
compromise on natural gas
legislation.
In letters to the members
of the U.S. Senate, Grant
called for immediate
deregulation of the pricing
on natural gas, saying
“There are vast reserves of
natural gas that have not
been tapped because the *
price of natural gas is held
artificially low. These
reserves will not be
fruit trees, did not add to the
possibility of a good harvest
this year.
Looking ahead to the apple
harvest which will shortly
get into full swing, whether
the crop would be good or
not, depended a lot on what
variety of apples one talked
about.
Adams County growers
developed under the lengthy
system of phased-in
■ deregulation proposed in the
conference report.”
Grant also emphasized the
importance of an
agricultural priority for
natural gas, pointing out that
agriculture depends on
biological processes and
cannot make up for
production lost as a result of
a natural gas shortfall.
Without an agricultural
priority for natural gas, the
farm leader said, it would be
difficult to meet this nation’s
requirements for food and
fiber.
Grant encouraged the
senators to recommit the
conference report to the
conferees with specific in
structions to report back
legislation that immediately
deregulates natural gas
pricing and contains an
adequate agricultural
priority similar to one ap
proved by the Senate.
seem to expect about a 50 to
60 per cent crop overall in
the apples this year, ac
cording to Donald Weiner,
Aspers Rl. He cited the
problems of it being too wet
and too cold early in the
Spring, along with the poor
pollination. But he added
that the quality of the apples
was good, as good if not
better of the apples of the
past few years.
He expects apple prices to
stay basically the same, for
although Pennsylvania
apples were hurt this year,
he stated that other states
such as New York and
Virginia, will have good
crops, which will keep prices
from rising.
Joseph Raab, of the Raab
Fruit Farm, Dallastown R 2,
stated that he had just
finished picking his Eambo
apples and will be starting
his main apple season within
ten days. He expects a full
crop of his Jonathon variety
and a very light crop of the
Red Delicious and Stayman
Winetap apples. The Rome
Beauty that he raises, he
thought would be good, and
the last ones to come in,
being harvested at the end of
October.
Raab noted that the week
the apples came into full
bloom, the temperatute went
as low as 24 to 28 degrees F.,
and then the week after that,
it rained the entire week. He
stated that the bees just did
not pollinate as was needed
this year.
He too did not expect the
apple prices to rise though
this year, because he told
that he had heard that the
Virginia and New York
apples were the best crop in
the past three years this
season in all varieties.
Richard Haas, of the
Cherry Hill Orchard, in
Lancaster County, put the
apple crop situation this
way, “Some places the
apples are excellent in the
orchard, and some places
they are very light”. He
thought that the good
varieties would be the
Rambo, the Smokehouse,
The Mclntosh, the Golden
Delicious, and The Rome
Beauty. Some of the Red
Delicious he thought were
very good, some very light,
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and the Stayman too, he saw
as generally light
He stated that over the
Summer, there were no
significant problems with
the apples, and hoped that
the crop would finish out
nicely. He thought both the
apples and pears would have
good quality this year,
stating that the apples to be
picked looked beautiful.
Peter Alexih, from the
Herr Fruit Farm, said that
his Red Delicious crop
should be at about 70 per
cent this year, and his
Golden Delicioous were a
light crop, at about 40 per
cent He thought a heavy
crop of Red Delicious is
unusual in Pa. and noted that
some of his fruit trees of that
variety are so heavy with
fruit that they are starting to
breakdown.
Speaking of his
Smokehouse variety, he
noted that he expects to start
picking them Monday, and
that they should be excellent
this year for the applesauce
making. His Mclntosh ap
ples, he said, were reported
at almost 100 per cent and
his York and Rome variety
of apples were both good in
both quality and quanity.
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