Farming, Saturday, July 19,19*0
HARRISBURG - Con
tinued dry weather over
central and southern Penn
sylvania is causing some
problems for the state’s
farmers. Many farmers are
reporting corn and field
crops are not up to quality.
“Farmers from across the
site are telling us that their
corn is curling and wilting,
that vegetable growth is
being slowed, and that
pastures are drying up,”
says state Ag Secretary
Penrose Hallowell.
“The Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service has also
confirmed that in this week’s
Crop and Weather Roundup.
Statewide, soil moisture is
now reported as 47 percent
short and 47 percent
adequate for farmers’
needs.”
The southeast, from
Allentown to Philadelphia,
shows from one inch to
nearly three inches less
rainfall than normal.
Hallowell said while
northern farmers rate soil
moisture as 84 percent
adequate and eight percent
short, central and southern
counties have been hard hit
by the hot dry weather over
the last six weeks.
“Central counties are
rating soil moisture as 67
percent short and only 27
percent adequate, and
southern counties are faring
little better, with 64 percent
short and 36 percent
adequate.”
The Agriculture Secretary
said it was too early to
predict a major loss for the
1960 crop year, but noted a
continuation of the dry trend
would certainly affect
production and crop quality.
During the week ending
July 14, com reached an
average of 32 inches across
the state, five inches taller
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Hot, dry weather takes toll of crops
than last year. Some corn in
the south is now beginning to
tassel. Average com height
is 26 inches in the north, 29
inches in central counties
and 41 inches in southern
counties, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Feed from pastures was
rated at 51 percent average
and 49 percent below
average statewide, with
below average ratings
predominant in central and
southern areas. Feed from
pasture was 64 percent
below average and 36 per
cent average in central
counties and 55 percent
below average and 45 per
cent average in the south.
Only northern counties,
showed average ratings pt
feed from pasture, at 80
percent with another 20
pastures percent rating
northern below average.
Potato growth has been
slowed due to lack of soil
moisture, but green pea
yields look good. Early
cabbage, sweet corn,
tomatoes and snapbeans are
being harvested.
Barley is now 16 percent
turning, 25 percent npe and
59 percent harvested,
compared to progress last
year of 11 percent turning, 33
percent npe and 56 percent
harvested. Northern areas
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report 65 percent turning, 28
percent npe and five perront
harvested.
Central counties rate
barley at one percent tur
ning, 30 percent ripe and
another 69 percent har
vested.
In the south, barley is 18
percent npe and 82 percent
harvested.
Wheat is 46 percent tur
ning, 39 percent ripe and 13
percent harvested; last
year’s figures at this time
were 44 percent turning, 45
percent ripe and eight
percent harvested. In the
north, seven percent is
headed, 92 percent is tur
ning, and less than five
percent is npe.
Central counties show 38
percent turning, 55 percent
ripe and seven percent
harvested.
In the south, 11 percent is
turning, 52 percent is ripe,
and 37 percent has been
harvested.
Oats are 55 percent
headed, 36 percent turning,
five percent ripe and less
than five percent harvested
statewide. Last year, 70
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percent was headed, 21
percent turning and less
than five percent ripe. Nine
percent of the northern crop
is not yet headed, 76 percent
is headed, seven percent is
turning and eight percent is
ripe.
In central Pennsylvania,
59 percent is headed and 41
percent turning, and in the
south, 23 percent is headed,
62 percent turning, 11 per
cent npe and four percent
harvested.
First cutting of alfalfa is
virtually complete, with
second cutting at 31 percent
compared to 24 percent last
year. The north is nine
percent done, central
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counties are at 29 percent
and the south is at 50 percent
of the second cutting.
Clover-timothy stands are
94 percent harvested
compared to 89 percent last
year. The north is at 93
percent harvested, while
central and southern
counties are now 94 and 96
percent harvested,
respectively.
Hay quality for the week
was mostly good to fair.
Northern operators rated
hay at 50 percent fair to 40
percent good, central
operators rated hay 50
percent good to 43 percent
fair, and southern operators
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rated their hay at 73 percent
good to 18 percent fair.
Apples and peaches are
reported as sizing well. All
fruit growers indicate the
best fruit crop in the past
five years.
Fuel supplies throughout
the state are reportedly
mostly adequate to surplus.
LP-gas was rated 87 percent
adequate to 13 percent
surplus. Diesel fuel was
rated 90 percent adequate
and ten percent surplus,
while gasoline was rated 91
percent adequate and nine
percent surplus.
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