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Agent, said apples are smaller than usual this year and since apples for processing are graded by size, they’ll be less profitable.
Williams who also operates an orchard said red and yellow delicious apples are smaller, but fortunately, York and Stayman apples are the usual {Size. Hoifrever, they are all about two weeks ahead in maturity. The high temperatures have caused the apples to ripen faster, and the trees, stressed by lack of water, are prematurely dropping their apples. Many are rotting quickly. Moore agreed that this is a problem in his orchard, also.
“I’ll be fortunate if I cover my expenses this year,” said Williams.
Fortunately, an extremely wet spring provided tor abundant hay cuttings and, so far, has kept springs flowing and has maintained the water level in most wells. The average annual rainfall is 40.9 inches and the total to date for the year is not unremarkable.
However, this has been a hot, dry summer. From Sept. 8 through 28, less than onehalf of an inch of rain fell, while the normal precipitation in September is 3.1^ inches. Added to the drought?11 this was the third warmest August ever recorded.
Dennis Wingfield of Sperrvville, a Channel Four “weather watcher,” keeps track of the daily temperature and rainfall. The total rainfall for July was 1.07 inches, for August was 1.85 inches and, as of Sept. 28, was .94 inches for the month. In comparison, September 1997 had 7.07 inches and September 1996, a period of incredible rainfall, had 17.78 inches.
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