The winter wheat field start to grow. Spring plowing accelerates, tobacco seed beds are prepared, steamed, planted and covered by white muslin to protect the tiny seeds from the cool nights. Tobacco is the cash crop and there might be about ten acres of this. Also acres of alfalfa and clover. From sunrise to sunset there is activity on the farm.
Summer is the time for growth, cultivation, and some harvesting.
The wheat is ripening and the farmer is wishing for weeks of hot, dry weather in July to harvest his grain. The corn and tobacco need cultivating and another cutting of hay must be dried and taken into the barn. Grains are havested in July. The tobacco raised in Lancaster County is primarily used as filler for cigars and some for chewing tobacco. The earnings per hour for tobacco are poor, but it is a family effort and this keeps the family together.