D4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 14,1981 Tomato (Continued from Page D 3) variety, it may not have icceived the irrigations soon enough because its fruit size was smaller than usual The following insect and disease control spray program was used July 3 Cygon 267 + Bravo tank mix, July 24 Copper Count N + Dithane M-45 tank-mix, August 14 Kocide 101 + Dithane M-45 tank mix The coppei sprays were included because there was a little Bac terial Speck early in the season According to Mr Van Kirk these sprays eliminated almost all Speck except for some on Red Rock at harvest time Because of the hot, dry weather, less than 50 percent of the tomato fields received the normal ethephon application The earliest maturing 10 acres with the heaviest foliage received 6 pints of Ethrel per acre, the middle 10 acres received only 3 pints per acre and the latest maturing 10 acres received no Ethrel ap plication Despite these scheduling The TIMBER EZE is especially designed to hook up with your central hot water or hot air heating systems thus eliminating the need to burn costly fuel Simply install the TIMBER EZE beside your furnace and connect the water pipes to the boiler and let the TIMBER EZE heat your water system FEATURES Four Models To Choose From • Automatic Temperature Control • Burns Logs up to 28 • Heavy Duty Cast Iron Rocking Grates • Weight 710 lbs • Cast Iron Doors • Constructed of S'l6' and 1/4 ' steel • Fire Brick Lined « Available in B'/? or 3V: gal wafer jackets A.R. FLAUD SALES Timbereze Distributor & Sales RD #2, Rock Road, Honey Brook, Pa 19344 For More Information Call 215-273-3211 DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME growers treatments, all of the tomatoes were still hat vested iq a two-week period (August 28-September 13) because of the weather A 1978 Model Button-Johnson self-propelled tomato harvester with an electronic sorter was used to harvest the crop The machine and 8 men and women sorters usually operated from about 7am to 5 p m with a 30-mmute lunch break The tomatoes were har vested directly into the bulk semi trailers used to haul them to the Furman plant Although the dry, dusty con ditions were hard on the sorters, these same conditions were very conducive to full operating machine efficiency Leon Epler Farms previously grew pi ocessmg tomatoes through 1968, then dropped the crop because of problems with migrant laborers They began growing tomatoes again in 1979 after buying the Button-Johnson harvester Next year they would like to ex pand their tomato acreage if they can receive a good contract price Raymond Martin Raymond Martin, R 3, Sehn sgrove, won the award for the highest tomato yield in the Class 4 Hand-Harvest competition for growers with 5 to 14 acres Martin picked 159 01 tons of tomatoes for Furman Canning Co on 5 acres for a 81 80 per ton acre average yield Varieties grown were H-1370, C-87, US-141, US-28, Red Rock and Pik-Red (only 2000 plants; Georgia-grown iian splants The Jaliei - > ( .. fresh-market variety which did not ' hold up well later in the season Part of the 5-acre tomato crop followed a sod ciop and part followed corn stubble Although Penn State soil test recom mendations were followed for the commercial fertilizer and lime applications, liberal amounts ot mixed cattle and horse manure were also applied Martin attempts to obtain a population of about 7000 plants per acre by spacing his transplants 5 feet between lows with 15 inches between plants in the row JAMESWAY 9 Air Pressure Manure Transfer System Does hard wvork for you Whatever your herd size—so, 150 or more—let air pressure move manure to storage in minutes. 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Rte 519-N off Rte 46 P O Box 185 Belvidere, NJ 07823 201 475 2185 At transplant time (May 12 to 2b;, Martin used a startei solution comprised ot 3 pounds of 10-52-8 per 50 gallons of water Although a herbicide was used, Martin also cultivated and spot hoed the field Because of access to water from a creek nearby, seveial timely overhead spi inklei irrigations were applied to this crop The irngations were piobabl> the key to Ra> mond Martin s success this past season For disease control Bravo was alternated with a tank-mix of Kocide 101 plus Dithane M-45 Diazmon, Guthion, and Sevin were used for insect control A boom Booklet available on soil, water WASHINGTON, DC- USDA’s •oil Conservation Service recently »ssued a booklet describing the current state of the nation’s non federal lands and pioblems of erosion, loss of prime farmlands and wetlands and the expansion of irrigation even as many water tables are falling / y DEPENDABLE MOTORS ROVENDALE SUPPLY Honey Brook, PA RD 2, Watsontown, PA 17777 215-273 3131 717 538-5521 215 273-3737 HENRY 3 l app SOUENBERGER SIIOS ntrin I ». 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Family and neighbors were employed to hand-harvest the crop Tomatoes were picked into 5/8 baskets and then dumped into a straight truck beef which was lined with polyethylene Since no ethephon was applied to ripen the crop, each field had to be picked four times The first delivery to Furman s was on August 14 and the last delivery was on September 30 Only the above three Contestants entered this year’s contest, therefore no entries were received in any of the other Classes The booklet is titled, "America’s Soil and Water Condition and Trends” and is available from county offices of the Soil Con servation Service and from the SCS Information Division, room 0054-S, USDA, Washington, D C 20250. Phone requests (202) 447- 5063 **S s * * V ■4 | S jgg 4 %v > N \VS J. A. SWOPE Box 121, RDI Myerstown, PA 717-933 4758 DETWILER SILO REPAIR Rt 2, Newville, PA 717-776-7533
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