Spring plowing 87 per HARRISBURG Fanners m Pennsylvania had six days suitable for fieldwork m the week ending May 13, ac cording co the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. This was the fourth con secutive week with little rain, so most farmers welcomed showers late in the week as small grains, hay and pastures had begun to show a need for moisture. Moisture in the past week was rated mostly adequate It This Summer WE HANDLE THE COMPLETE SYSTEM • Building • Pipeline • Dairy Equipment • Vacuum Pumps • Tanks • Etc. Call Us For A Price i. M. HORST SERVICE CO. Box 231, Quentin, PA 717-274-1242 ★ 24 Hour Service COLUMBIA R. P. Williams & Sons, Inc. Rt 462 East 717-684-2019 EAST EARL Shady Maple Lawn & Garden Center, Inc. RD #2 215-445-6175 ELM Bomberger’s Store 717-665-2407 to somewhat short before the showers. The south showed the lowest ratings of short sod moisture. At 87 per cent complete, Spring plowing is now two weeks ahead of the 78 per cent a year ago. The north is 83 per cent done, central counties stand at 90 per cent, whde the south reports 87 per cent. Com is 12 days ahead of last year at 42 per cent planted compared to 28 per Beauty without bagging. Four Toro Mulchers that eliminate bagging and raking. All cut a smooth, 21" swath, chop clippmgs fine, then force feed them back to lawn as a nutritious mulch. Choose hand-propelled or self-propelled with front wheel Pow-R-Dnve® ■•" e High Torque® engme with Key-Lectnc® "le-lever height-of-cut adjustment tod. 18060 shown. See your Toro dealer now. Hnmftyon flH| dona without a Toro MUJ {{§! . long«noiif^?®CßO|p EPHRATA Hollinger’s Farm Market 1755 W. Mam St 717-738-1131 LANCASTER Watt & Shand Dept. Store Downtown & Park City 717-397-5221 LEBANON Umberger’s Mill RD #4 (Fontana) 717-867-5161 or 717-867-2613 cent with the average of 29 per cent. Operators were running late at night to plant during the heat wave The north is at 18 per cent, central counties report 46 per cent with 55 per cent planted in the south. At 14 per cent headed and 28 per cent m boot, barley is 28 days ahead of the less than five per cent headed last year. Though none is headed m the north, central counties report eight per cent with the south at one quarter. Wheat is one third in boot, 13 per cent ahead of last year’s five per cent. The north is at 11 per cent, central counties at 30 per cent and the south reports 49 per cent in boot with a slight amount headed. ) have a nice weekend.. CRACK A SMILE UTITZ Long’s Mower Service 1237 Clay Road 717-626-8180 MANHEIM White Oak Lawn & Leisure 329 W. High St Formerly Nauman’s Lawn & Garden 717-665-4627 ROHRERSTOWN Rohrerstown Lawn Mower Service, Inc. 2208 Wood St 717-394-7617 WILLOW STREET Dombach Brothers, Inc. 2850 Willow St. Pike 717-464-3011 cent completed Hay and pastures responded well to last week’s warmth and moisture Hay is rated four-fifths in good condition and the rest fair. A slight bit of first crop alfalfa was out, mostly for silage, with quality mostly good. Feed from pastures is average. At 87 per cent m or past full bloom, peaches are 13 days ahead of the 35 per cent in or past full bloom last year. Oriental fruit moth larvae are present on peaches. Cherries are at 86 per cent in or past full bloom, eight days ahead of Reforestation award given ♦ Robert H. Rumpf, left, Pennsylvania district manager, The Glatfelter Pulp Wood Corpany, Spring Grove, accepts the 1978 Company Project Award from Mrs. Maxine Morrison, coordinator of the National Arbor Day Foundation's award ceremonies and Mr. Phillip Thronton, deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service. This national award was made to the Company in recognition of its continuing reforestation project in south central Pennsylvania and for providing tree seedlings to York County schools for Arbor Day plantings. The award was presented to the Glatfelter firm during the National Arbor Day Foundation's annual award ceremony in Nebraska City, Neb. in April. COMING JUNE 9 Lancaste- Farming, Saturday, May 26,1979 last year’s 50 per cent. Apples are 11 days ahead of last year at 72 per cent in or past full bloom compared to 21 per cent last year. Rosy apple aphid populations are reportedly high. Weather has been good for fruit pollination. Strawberries are forming as asparagus and early leaf crops harvesting continues. Soybeans are now eight per cent planted, ten days ahead of last year when none had yet been reported planted. Planting has not begun in the north while central and southern 139 in Pa . counties are at ten and eight per cent respectively. Oats are 92 per cent sown, 13 days ahead of 87 per cent last year. The south is done, central counties report 94 per cent with 84 per cent sown in the north. Oats seeding was mentioned by operators as being delayed due to late arrival of lime and fertilier. At 66 per cent planted, potatoes are a week ahead of 58 per cent in 1978. The south is virtually all planted, central counties are at three fifths with the north 48 per cent complete.
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