HARRISBURG - Statewide, iut days were rated suitable for eldwork for the week ending Sept, i, according to the Pennsylvania rop Reporting Service. In the POURED SOLID CONCRETE STORAGE SYSTEMS ' f" V Increase Your Volume By In-Ground Storage CONCRETE WORK, INC. 410 Main St. • Akror, PA (717) 859*2074 or 733-9196 Fall harvest running ahead of last year northern and central regions of the state, four days were rated suitable, while in the southern region reporters rated five, days suitable for fieldwork. Yout assurance of a real dairy food. Any Size Acitivities for the week included harvesting potatoes, tomatoes, sweet corn, cucumbers, peppers, cabbage, pumpkins, apples, grapes, cantaloupes, tobacco, and com silage; plowing; planting wheat and barley; and making hay. Topsoil moisture in Penn sylvania was rated adequate by 64 percent of our reporters and short by 36 percent. ilage Pit Walls lanure Pit Walls etalning Walls Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 2,1982—419 By the end of the week, 57 per cent of the com crop was in the dent stage and 24 percent was mature, compared with last year’s average of 49 percent harvested at this time last year. Statewide, 77 percent of the potato crop was harvested com pared with 59 percent harvested last year. In the northern region 71 percent was harvested, in the northern region 73 percent was harvested, and in the southern region 90 percent of the potato crop was harvested. The Commonwealth’s potato crop was 91 percent harvested while at this time last year harvest was virtually complete. By the end of the week 63 percent of the barley crop was planted compared with 52 percent planted last year. In the northern region 67 percent was planted in the central region 62_ percent was planted, and m the southern region 61 percent was planted. Wheat was 46 percent planted compared with 38 percent planted last year. In the northern region 48 percent was planted, in the central region 50 percent was planted, and in the southern region 43 percent of the wheat crop was planted. Statewide, fall plowing was 78 percent complete compared with both last year’s and the five-year COUPON Chlorinated Sudsy | MANUAL CLEANER I I with each 351 b. pail | c=> | | 1 SERVING THE FARM CO., INC. II g COMMUNITY SINCE 1884 Allentown. Pa. g Ig Ask your dealer for Hoffman's brochure of Cleaners and Sanitizers S Henry Miller, Shelsburg (814) 733-2985 g Aaron Groff. Ephtata (717) 354-4631 g Floyd Heintzelman, Allentown (215) 395-3561 Fred Gaul, Sinking Springs S IS Mel Wenger, Elizabethtown (717) 367-2126 (215)678-2210 S 'S Arthur Brandt, Lebanon (717) 273-7063 Richard Derr, Middletown g gj KC Dairy Service, Mt Bethel (717) 897-5283 (717)944-9845 a Boyer, Carlisle (717) 249-1195 Kermit Kessler. W 5 KM- I contact our office at (215) 432-4466 (215) 588-3671 UaHMiMiiw omn Bines MMI2, m 2 ■aungSaGdU average of 69 percent complete. Third crop alfalfa was 79 percent harvested compared 64 percent last year. In the northern region 67 percent was harvested, in the central region 72 percent was harvested, and in the southern region 94 percent of the third crop was harvested. Fourth crop alfalfa was 37 percent harvested com pared with 31 percent harvested at this time last year. In the northern region 31 percent was harvested, in the central region 40 percent was harvested and in the southern region of the state 43 percent was harvested. The quality of hay made during the week was rated fair by 54 percent of our reporters, good by 25 percent, and poor by 21 percent. The amount of feed obtained from pastures was rated below average by 52 percent of our reporters and average by 48 percent. THINK AHEAD... iMd Futures Market* on Page 3.
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