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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

I'll let you know, that's about the same as mine did. Mid-summer
drought was bad here again this year. Corn could not come back.
Thankfully, it's been raining and cooler since mid-August, so the
pasture is back and goats are fat.

Rob - Va


> If you need more, just let me know.  I just shelled out the last of LAST
> year's crop and put up a couple hundred pounds of it.  And I haven't started
> harvesting this year's crop yet.  And even at that, I lost at least half 
> this
> year's BB to the drought.  The other half did famously with lots of those 
> fat 10"
> ears, but half was on just a little drier ground and in midsummer it stunted
> beyond recovery.
>
> All the Hickory King produced well, but, and I am supposing this is a
> function of the drought, every stalk put on ONE ear rather than the usual 
> two.
>
> James   </HTML>
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