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drifting in the wind.
• Contact your local air pollution regulation board at the county sheriffs office for guidelines.
• Try to burn in early morning or late evenings when air moisture content is high.
The key to keeping brush and forest fires down is the temperature. “Keep the temperatures dropping and the humidity rising, you may keep the fires down,” Warden Jenkins said.
But, area farmers may like to see some dryer days than the ones of the past few months.
“We’ve had so much rain that orchard keepers can’t spray their apples,” Rappahannock County’s Agricultural Extension Agent, Tommy Williams said, adding that many farmers can not harvest their crops due to wet ground areas. “The good thing about this is that farmers can graze their cattle longer,” saving on feed costs he said, explaining the rain and high temperatures have helped to keep pastures green and growing, after their usual growing season ends.
With no killing frost to turn the
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