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Here’s A Sad,
Sad Story............
Horticulturalists at VPI have always preached safety, at apple harvest time —> and now they’re" it reusing it a little more than usual. Their timely awareness that it pays to be careful when you’re picking apples was prompted by a letter which crossed their /(desk. : The author, they say, is unknown.
“Dear Sirs,” the letter begins sedately enough, “I have a prob* lem to describe to you. I have an , apple tree which must be the biggest apple tree in the world. So, to harvest it I rigged up a pulley and connected a large barrel tp one end. I pulled the barrel up’to the top of the tree and secured the rope to the truck on the ground. 1 then went up the tree and picked the first barrel of apples then climbed down the tree and unhooked the line from the truck. Unfortunately, the barrel of apples was heavier than I was, and before I knew what was happennig the barrel started jerking me off the ground.
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