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Imagine receiving an engraved invitation to spend a peaceful day on a wildlife preserve in the country—a quiet time when the family can walk in the woods and choose a Christmas tree.
He hasn’t got quite that fancy yet, but Captain William J. Keim says he must limit the traffic at Quail Call Farm each year by sending post cards to past customers letting them know which few days of the year those sought after trees will be available. This year it will be December 11-12 and again on the 17th if he hasn’t yet
hit his quota. j
Once a brief item ap- i
peared in the Washington j Star describing Quail Call. “I didn’t even know it was in,” he says, “But the traffic was backed up to Amissville.” That was the time he had 1,100 people in one day. Stuck with “abominable” traffic countrol and not enough people to help bundle. That’s the reason he sends cards an- j nouncing when the Christmas tree farm off Route 642 will open. He says he tries to limit his sales each year to 1,000-1,200 trees. He has never advertised, simply inviting back the people who signed his log the year before.
He plants accordingly, trying to keep the tree population steady on the 35. acres he devotes to trees and wildlife. Because of the animals, he keeps the evergreens spaced in rows ten feet apart rather than the maximum density allowed for the most marketing. In between the rows he plants wheat, fescue, sunflowers, lespedeza and other good bird food and cover, Patches of autumn olive keep the wild turkeys and songbirds happy. Beaver dams and Fawn footprints here and there attest to the contentment of other denizens.
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