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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: SAVE THE TREES!
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:58:49 GMT
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- mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
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- >Now, Mr. Vandeman, has it occurred to you that Christmas
- >trees are grown on Christmas tree farms, that the tree will be cut
- >whether or not you buy it, and that the only effect of a drop in the
- >number of Christmas trees purchased will be to make Chrstmas tree
- >farmers grow other crops or develop their properties?
-
- Good point. So, let's enjoy the Christmas trees while they live, for
- without the tree industry, we'd have fields of corn stubble instead of
- hillside after hillside of trees. IMOHO Christmas isn't Christmas
- without the scent of a tree in one's family room. I bought an 8' tree
- at a farm just up the road from my house. My office-mate got his 12'
- tree from another farm down the road from me. It helps the local farm
- economy and makes it feel like Christmas is coming despite a mailbox
- full of Christmas special advertising.
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