B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 17,1982
Golden crop thrives
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here is not unusual for them.
As Barley talks he likes to
philosophize and he feels tobacco
farming may be a contributing
factor to Lancaster County’s neat
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appearance. “Lancaster County is
the Garden Spot of the world they
used to say when I was a boy. A lot
of that is because of tobacco. A
man who did general farming
always had a few acres of tobacco
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and when you look out the window
of the tobacco shed you can always
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Therefore, fence rows got
mended, trash got picked up and
farmsteads always looked
presentable. Those who weren’t
stripping tobacco, according to
Barley, could be found at the
general store or at the local garage
and they didn’t see all those things
needing to be done in the Spring.
“You don’t see any tumbledown
buildings in Lancaster County,” he
concludes.
Asked how much he is hoping to
plant this year—his—slst Abe
replies, “As few as I can get the
boys talked down to. I’d like to
reduce to ten acres.” The boys, of
course, are John and Abram, on
whose land he raises the crop.
Barley predicts that acreage will
be reduced on a voluntary level
this year because of the lower
prices and unsold tobacco. The
previous year’s high prices en
couraged larger acreages to be
planted this year.
For the first tune he will not be
sowing his own seedbed this year,
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but will rely instead upon his
nephew Harold for plants. In
return Barley has promised to help
pull the plants, a job which he says
is the “most dreaded job” of
tobacco growing. “You are on a
plank and it gets monotonous and
tiresome to be in the same
position.”
Barley admits that one way to
relieve the boredom, is to throw a
little dirt in someone’s direction, or
to “accidentally’ spray the pullers
with the water which is being used
to loosen the plants.
Barley’s goal is to get the plants
in the ground early so the cutting
can be done before school gets
underway in September. With this
schedule, the plants go in during
the latter part of May or early
June, and they start topping in mid
tc late July. “Then we leave it
stand at least three weeks or
longer before we cut it. We try to
get it m before school starts. We all
help out and get it in fast.”
The grandchildren can all be
found m the fields during this time,
although sometimes only for an
hour or two because of other ac
tivities. Most of them agree that
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the field work is the part they like
best.
Abe points out, “You can’t cut in
the heat of the day or it will get
sunburned; then it must be used in
second grade. By proper
management you can do it with
next to no sunburn ”
Grace adds, “The weather has
lot to do with it. When we harvest
early we must be much more
cautious than with a later har
vest.”
The tobacco is put on laths and
hung in three different barns.
“When.it is tune to take it down,
everybody pitches in an helps,”
Abe says. “We load it on wagons
and leave it set until we are ready
for it.” Stripping may begin as
early as November, but usually it
is not begun until December. Abe
explains, “On nice days I’m doing
something else.”
Barley points out that Lancaster
County has never suffered a
complete crop loss with tobacco;
although m 1958, many, Abram
included, had extensive hail
damage, which some called a total
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