Famine, Saturday, September 17,1983 The sights, smells and thoughts of drought corn fields, the plants are not as stunted, but ears kernel development. In some show little FARMSTEAD® I 1 BUTLER MFC. CO. I Attn. P.E. Hess V BU * * mC - tr Uf . Box 337. Oxford. PA 19363 I Dealer Inquiries Available kc Pennsylvania Counties • Berks. Schuylkill, ■ Armstrong, Indiana. Erie. Crawlord, Warren, Elk, Cameron. McKean, I Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan, Wyoming, Luzerne, Columbia, Butler, Brad- I ford, Susquehanna. Adams, Cumberland, York. New Jersey Counties - • Sussex, Moms, Passaic, Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Middlesex I Somerset Maryland Counties • Kent, Queen Annas, Talbot. Dorchester 1 New York Counties - Orleans, Genessa, Monroe. Livingston. Allegany. I Steuben Yates. Senoca. Cayuga, Tempkins. Schuyler. Tioga, Chemung. 1 Broome. Chenango. Madison, Onondaga, Lewis. Oneida. Herkimer. I Fulton. Montgomery, Otsego, Delaware. Schohaire. Sullivan, Orange. Ulster. Greene, Chautauqua. Cattaraugus I No Deafer Fees. I Name - . -Address citr Buy It Right Color It FH^KS* State. At silage-making time BY DICK ANGLESTEIN LANCASTER It’s corn chopping time - an annual ben* chmark in an agricultural year, particularly for a dairy farmer. This is usually a time of fulfillment as a season of growth is harvested and put into storage for a season of feeding. Typically as you steer down the rows and occasionally glance back to watch the mixture being blown into the wagon, your thoughts drift back to the time the seed went into the ground and slip forward to the coming cold winter mornings you’ll walk into that warm bam to feed some of what you’re chopping. But this is not a typical year. It’s quite a bit different from most any year you can remember. Here are some sights, sounds and thoughts of what might be a typical dairyman as he pulls the tractor, chopper and wagon into his drought-stunted fields, par ticularly in southcentral and southeastern Pennsylvania. The first thing that hits you as you pull into the fields is how far you can see. There’s nothing to even partially block your vision. You got to stretch out and really crane the neck down to even see what you’re chopping. The sun always hangs low on the horizon on the mornings of silage making time. There were years the sun shimmered and danced through the tassels that were about eye level as you moved through the rows. But not this year. In some spots, you-even have to look to find (Turn to Page A 25) Bethlehem More good newt when specified as roofing or siding Galvalume is warranted, under exposure to normal atmosphere conditions* for a period of twenty years against rupture, perforation, or structural failure KNOXVILLE CONSTRUCTION Knoxville. Pa. 16928 PH: BX4-326-4188 C&M SALES INC. NAZARETH BUILDING W.R. MOODY, O. A. NEWTON TRI-STATE MARINE KELLER BUILDING R.D.41 SYSTEMS. INC. CONTRACTOR & SON CO. DIST'jhIC A\ SYSTEMS INC. P.0.80x 47 113 Walnut Lane BndgeviUe. 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LIMITED TIME ONtV BY DICK ANNAPOLIS - As Marylan launched a Bottle Bill Walk ac the state this week, legislation quiring mandatory deposits throwaway beverage contai was making news in both York and Pennsylvania. In Maryland, one group o vironmentalista left the Virginia state line on Wedne headed for Annapolis. A se group leaves Ocean City on Se| for the state capital and a rally on October 1. In New York, a retun container law went into effei Monday. With annual sales billion containers a year, York by far has been the lai container state among the with a mandatory five-cent de thus far. And in Pennsylvania w § legislation has been introdi momentum is reported to building in favor of the prop law for the Commonwealtl number of legislators, particu from rural areas, report the b bill is uppermost in the min many constituents. And backii organized farm groups is creasing, too. 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