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Not responsible for typographical errors We reserve the right to substitute gift items follow, to hasten drying by mov ing the swath of green. Rakes blend multiple rows into field shaped geometric designs, in final preparation for gobbling up by forage harvesters or balers, and again stir the aroma of dry ing forages into the breeze. A hay-mow stacked full with well made bales has its own scent, too, dried-grass packages fragrant in afternoon warmth compounded under a sun-splashed, metal bam roof. Curing hay silage adds another scent to the breeze, a distinctive fermenting aroma enticing to cows and pleasing to farmers. Ex tended periods of bad weather on mown hay cause quick deteriora tion, the results a possible turn off to not only the discriminating palates of cows, but less pleasing to our own noses. Walking across the lawn on a recent sultry day, a light breeze flung across the yard the heady perfume of roses. A bed of end of-season-sale roses purchased by The Farmer in recent years have matured into bushes laden with heavenly June color and fra grance. While it’s been said that “a rose is a rose is a rose,” I dis agree. Roses vary, each having not only a distinctive color and shape, but also its own nuance of rose scent. Burying one’s nose deep into their petals to sample their fra grances is a bit like being a bever age taster. One should cleanse the palate, so to speak, between each variety. Maybe with a handful of fresh-mown hay. The roses’ delightful fragrance goes a long way toward earning forgiveness for their briary bush es, which find some way to rip my fingers every time I reach in no matter how carefully to yank out a weed. Some of them sport virtual suits of jagged armor all up and down their tough stems. A somewhat dusty-warm smell in this time of late June rises from maturing of grain crops, as combines lumber into wheat and barley fields to thresh out the kernels and spit the straw out in shiny windrows. Grains and their straw have a lighter, less distinc tive aroma than hay, but a defi nite one all their own. A bam-y smell, perhaps? But hay and grain and roses all somewhat owe their scents to that of a less poetic, but vital sea sonal aroma. Step outside on a damp morning after a rain. Can you smell the earthworms? I read recently that an acre of • Wedding Invitations • Brochures • Business Cards • Sale Cards • Catalogs • Newsletters • Newspapers Arl Haas One East Main Street P.O. Box 527, Ephrata, PA 17522 717-733-6397 • Fax 717-733-6058 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 2002-B3 rich, organic soil may have a half-million earthworms busy burrowing and tunneling through it, loosening and aerating the soil while enriching it further with worm castings, or manure. The richest soil generally has the best worms, plugging away endlessly, unseen, to do their part to im prove the earth. While fisherman snag them for bait, I find myself scouring the pavement after a rain for worm “strays” tucking them into the flower beds or a compost pile, where they can go to work en riching more soil. Otherwise, they become bird food as they dry and shrivel up under the hot sun. That seems to make much bet ter “scents” than having them rot out in the sun. So, please do your part. After the next rainfall, save an earth worm. Help make the world a sweeter place. 11
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