«=—>"" ****** 15, incMt Official Pub'iMtion For The PENNSYLVANIA WASTE" CORN GROWERS ASSOC. SPECIAL SECTION IN LANCASTER FARMING AHUARY 29 ADVERTISERS PLAN NOW TO RESERVE OUR SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 717-394-3047 DEADLINE OR FRIDAY, ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff PARADISE (Lancaster Co) Sometimes tom has a lot more uses than you can imagine You know the standard uses corn flakes, beverage sweetener, alternative combus tion fuel, and others But there arc more uses than you might have read about and that includes, of all things, entertainment farming Why not moke a show out of the front five acres' Thai's exactly what Cherry-Crest Farm, operated by Jack and Donna Coleman in Paradise, did Hus year marked the fourth time in a row that the Coleman's put up the “World’s Largest Attended Ma/e," in which every year a new “theme" for the com ma/c is selected The maze, taking up five acres, was planted in the shape of the Keystone Stale itself, complete with (he four cities making up the comers (Phi ladelphia, Pittsburgh, Ene, and Scranton-Wilkes Barre) In the center is the shape of the Liber ty Bell, along with ribbons along the com row “paths" of the maze painted a different color to represent a section of the maze (yellow for the Liber ly Bell, green for the state out line, red the Paradise Star, and white the stars of iKe major cities) r The "Land of Liberty" theme proved especially attractive for area tourists Each day during Jeff Stottrfus, Eastern Lancaster County (ELANCO) School District Adult Farmer Program adviser, center, spoke to about 60 farmer and agri-industry representatives In June during the third annual ELANCO Adult Farmer Prog ram Spring Meeting at the Eugene Marlin Farm south of New Holland. See etory page 3. Photo by Andy Andrews the season the maze averaged about I,2oCM,soovialors Last year about 50,000 visitors showed up to lour the maze, in the shape of Noah’s Ark The first year the maze was laid out m the shape of a locomotive and the second year, a horse and buggy At the top of the maze, north of the “gameboard," was an America flag made up of 14,000 petunias According to Coleman, the one-third acre (lag was planted the third week of May this year, contracted with Good Harvest, Slrasburg The com maze itself, which opened July 2, was planted with Pioneer 32K62, a Bt hybrid, full season variety The com was planted May 5 in 30-mch r iws The ma/e theme outline was godded out and, when the com was less than eight inches tall, a crew worked a hoc to shape A few acnal photo graphs were taken before the final shape could be finished The drought emergency this year had an effect on some of the tourists, but luckily, accord ing to Coleman, enough rain had fallen In mid-July, two irrigations were needed to keep the com stalks from turning brown and bnttle The maze employs about \ 5, mostly youth, from around the region The Colemans also care for 60 cows on their dairy, m addition to 50,000 broilers under contract with Tyson The maze is open Sept through Sept 18 Friday and (Turn (o Pag# 12) COMMERCIAL REPORTS _ A . e PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE farm feature RNTfIIK VANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. incaster Farming, Saturday, October 9, 1999 -,gh p, <cty a peel inis year the Pennsylv. nia Master Corn Grower* Association and Penn State Extension Service also had a corn products stand at the maze. From left. Jack Coleman and right, Del Voight, Lebanon County extension agent, at the stand. Photo by Andy Andrews PENNSYLVANIA MASTER lORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION Between The Rows Dr. Gmg Roth Ptnn Slat* Agronomy Associate Protestor AN END TO A VERY LONGYEAR I’m sure the 1999 growing season had as many days and hours as previous seasons, but for many of us it sure seemed like a longer than normal \ear For man> t Mother Nature threw a few curveballs that resulted in some dreadful hybrid corn crops being produce! around the stale Fortunately, this kind of season is a rare occurrence that we hope does not reoccur for the remainder of your careers I thought I might be good to revisit a few of the issues we ran into this summer and (Turn M Png* 4)
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