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Re: March 12 Laurie Lange column.
In her enjoyable column about daylight saving time, Laurie Lange wrote: “Farmers need cool early summer light for their field work, while urbanites cook mostly in the evening.”
I want to ask this: What farmers ever felt the need to go by a clock to find cool early summer light for their field work instead of simply getting out of bed at natural daylight time to make that happen? The field and its light are on natural time. The bank and courthouse go by man’s clock.
Lange is not alone in that idea, since I’ve heard it repeated many times over the years — but never, ever in our farming community.
Joy Schafer, Haxtun
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