Fanrtu, Saturday, My 23,1983 It s open season on Production manager Stuart Constable checks the progress of this young cherry tree and guides its growth with clothes pins which will help spread the branches for early production. FARMSTEAD® I Talk with BUTLER - The #1 Building Company BUILDINGS ENGINEERED FOR FARMER ERECTION "e" rn** ummmmmmmmm * Attn. P.E. Hess Box 337. Oxford. PA 19363 De»ler Inquiries Available m Pennsylvania Counties Armstrong Indiana ■ Erie Crawford Warren Elk Cameron McKean Clinton Lycoming ■ Sullivan Wyoming Luzerne Columbia Butler, Mercer Lawrence Beaver ■ Bradford Susquehanna Adams Cumberland, York New Jersey Counties - " Sussex. Morris Passaic Atlantic Cape May Monmouth Middlesex ■ “ Somerset Warren Hunterdon Maryland Counties - Kent. Queen Annes " Talbot Dorchester New York Counties ■ Orleans Genesse Monroe I Livingston. Allegany. Steuben Yates Seneca, Cayuga Tempkms Schuyler Tioga Chemung. Broome. Chenango. Madison, Onondaga. Oswego Jet | ferson Lewis Oneida Herkimer Fulton Montgomery Otsego Delaware Schohaire Sullivan Orange. Ulster Greene B No Dealer Fees. a Name B Address County City Phone Ist in Sales Ist in Quality BUTLER State WEST CHESTER - About midway between CoatesviUe and West Chester, near the small village o£ Embreeville lies Highland Orchards in a a hillside patch work of fruit tree groves and vegetable plots. Highland Orchards. Inc. is a diversified produce farm that grows primarily for retail sales from their own farm market. A wide variety of small fruits, tree fruits, and vegetables are grown on the farm to provide a full line of fresh produce throughout the summer months. Fresh summer produce is coming into full swing now, with blueberries, cantelopes, cucum bers raspberries, squash, m full production, and peaches, apples and tomatoes just starting to be picked. Highland Orchard offers the customer the option to PYO (pick your own) produce or buy it already picked and graded in the farm market. Production manager, Stuart Constable says, the pick your own operation reduces the labor need for pickers, while allowing the customer to get the freshest fruit possible. Constable who works hard year round to produce the summer harvest, says he enjoys seeing people from neighboring com munities in the fields and orchards picking the fruits of his efforts. And as 1 learned on my first Bethlehem J More good news when specified as roofing or siding Gafvatume is warranted, under eiposure to norma) atmospheric conditions for a period of twenty years against rupture perforation or structural failure KNOXVILLE CONSTRUCTION Knoxville, Pa. 16928 PH: 814-326-4188 C&M SALES INC. NAZARETH BUILDING W.R. MOODY, O. A. NEWTON TRI-STATE MARINE KEI R.D.«I SYSTEMS. INC. CONTRACTOR & SON CO. DIST.INC. S P.0.80x 47 113 Walnut Lane Bridgeville. Delaware 19933 Roo. §56 <jf 1 PH.717-253-1612 Nazareth, Pa. 18064 West Newton PA 15089 PH; 302-337-8211 Oeale. Md. 20751 Lei PH: 215-759-1331 PH; 412-872-6804 PH; 301-867-1447 P BY THISH WILLIAMS i» n 20 YEAR WARRANTY LEROY E. MYERS. INC. Route 11. Box 163 Clear Spring, Md. 21722 PH: 301-582-1552 fresh Diversity gives Highlam experience at picking my own blueberries, it's fun! With the bluberry bushes full of fruit and the choice of five different varieties of blueberries, my picking tray soon filled with plump berries. According to Constable the extreme tut weather in recent weeks is causing the immature white berries to blush up quickly to a deep purple-blue. Anyone who has an interest in gardening or farming would probably also enjoy just walking around the fields and orchards to learn how the fruits and vegetables are grown. Constables says that they are gradually going to more and more PYO fruits and vegetables. For Jhis reason they must change the cultural practices used to grow the crops. Fruit trees are being trained to grow on a trellis, for ease o! picking. General Manager, Robert Hodge, says that he finds the smaller trees grown closer together work better on the steep hillsides, than the older plantings of large fruit trees. Hodge and his wife, Elizabeth started farming at Highland Or chards in 1957, the farm and or chard had previously been owned and operated by her father. At the tune they started farming, there were 50 acres of apples, 20 acres of peaches, a small planting of plums, two-and-a-half acres of cherries, as well as hay, field com, sweet com, and pastureland. The D. E. SMITH, INC. Mifflintown, Pa. 17059 PH; 717-436-2151 Pennsylvania operation has flourished in the last 26 years and two smaller farms have been acquired. Today 100 acres of peaches are grown as well 100 acres of apples, and a com plement of small fruits and vegetables. Highland Orchards became incorporated when Hodge’s children and personnel in the company wanted a financial in terest in the business. The agri-business corporation employs over 60 persons during the summer months, and around 20 employees full time in the winter months. Located in an area un dergoing residential development at a rapid rate, neighbors welcome the open fields, and many nearby students are grateful for the * BUILD-IT-YOUR! Butler will give a FRE each Farm Building (! * SPECIAL FARMS for buying now. EXTENDED TERMS FOR I for buying now. BUILD-IT-YOURSELF DA PROGRAM for limited time. PROGRAM ENDS MIDNIGHT AUG. GOMPF CONSTRUCTION CO. 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