B6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 1,1980 Do Delmarva farmers really spend their winters in Florida, enjoying the fruits of their summer’s labors? There is an old myth to' that effect and every once in a while someone mentions a crop rotation that includes com, soybeans, and Miami. That indicates that some farmers, especially those who grow only crops, limit their activities to com and soybeans that are grown in a relatively confined period, leaving them plenty of tune for extended winter vacations. That myth was probably started by a dairyman who was a little sore at spending seven days a week milking cows while his crops farmmg neighbor took a few days off. But the general consensus here on the Delmarva peninsula, and throughout the country for that matter, is that farmers are rather reluctant to take a vacation even during the winter lull. With luck, a com and soybean farmer can be all through with the hard part of harvesting well before Christmas. That means three or four months before the tractors start to roll agam. That’s not to say there isn’t anything to do around the farm. First off, most farmers have a big obligation to Uncle Sam that RE includes a lot of time consuming paperwork. When that’s done there’s still the talk of marketing last year’s crop, planning for the new season, buying supplies, and getting equipment m shape. The fact that farmers have to let a lot of things go during the busy harvest season. They’re working day and mght trying to get the crops in the bin before the weather turns bad. Some years they make it, some years they don’t. Given a rainy fall, they can be out there well into January trying to scrape up crops that have fallen to the ground. There’s no doubt most farmers take it a little easy in January and February, spending time in educational meetings, attending auc tions, shopping around for equipment and supplies, and in general moving at a slower pace. And a few even take real vacations. Some sign up for farm related tours to exotic places like Hawau, New Orleans, Arizona, and so on. And some go off on their own to visit family in other places or just to look around. In recent years, quite a bunch of them have climbed aboard their tractors for a few fun-filled days in downtown Washington, D.C. As a group, it’s hard to get farmers away from the farm even when their duties are pretty well caught up. Maybe it’s part of that age old tradition that says far mers are hardworking. God fearing, salt-of-the-earth types with their shoulders to the wheel and their noses to the grindstone. That’s a heavy burden and it makes having fun quite difficult. There’s a certain amount of pride in the voice of some farmers when they tell you they never take a vacation, or they haven’t been off the farm for more than a day m 20 years. There’s also something kind of sad about that, especially when you con sider an older farmer who is not hurting financially, who’s never been anywhere or done anything else besides farm. The world is a lot larger than a 200-acre farm, and it wouldn’t hurt most farmers to take a little time to find that out. People in business and industry take vacations. They use this tune to relax and rejuvenate, and it’s said they come back to work with new prospectives and new enthusiasm. Maybe that’s what farmers need after many months of fighting all of the problems of agriculture. So if you hear about a Create (Continued from Page B 5) simmer step on top ot the range.) Add diced cheese to hot soup. (Ladle mto individual bowls at this point if you plan to serve this way.) Top casserole or bowls with toasted bread, sprinkle with cheese, drizzle with butter. Place m 425 degrees F. oven ' for 10 mmutes,i turn on broiler and heat until browned. Serve at once. neighbor who’s gone to Disney World for a few days, don’t be too hard on him when he gets back After all, he’s put in a lot of hours this past year and he has some compensatory tune due him. You can bet come early March, when the first-signs of Spring start to show, he’ll be back from wherever vacation spot he may have chosen with his equipment in tune and - his supplies on hand, ready to start another farming year. IF YOU WANT A PROFITABLE HARVEST NEXT FALL... PLANT GUTWEIN HYBRIDS THIS SPRING! NOW'S THE TIME TO ORDER THE GUTWEIN HYBRIDS YOU NEED FROM YOUR NEAREST DEALER: DELAWARE: PENNA. 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