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["Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch@vsnl.com>]

I am really wondering on this discussion.  I though that trees were stolen
in India only.

But than god that our farmers have one advantage.  There are two planting
seasons here.  The ervergreens are planted with a large earthball around the
roots during the rainy season.  These do not get stolen as the pulled out
plants usually die.  The deciduous trees are planted bare rooted during
winter.  These are taken away.

I shall tell about it to my orchardist friends who will feel elated to know
that they are at par with US orchardists atleast in this practice.

Regards,

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
Horticultural Consultant on Lesser Known Indian Fruits
http://www.lesserknownplants.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph L. Papania" <ralph1952@myexcel.com>
To: "Apple-Crop" <apple-crop@virtualorchard.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Stolen trees

> About 10 years ago a local upstanding youth ran over 139 three yr old
trees
> during the winter with a four wheeler. I did not know it for a couple of
> weeks and it took me three months to find out who did it buy just keeping
my
> ears open and talking to different kids around town. When his mother was
> approached about it all she said was "it could not have been him his
> 4-wheeler has been broke for about three months." WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED
> LADY.
> Ralph L. Papania
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wally and Debbie Simpson <wallydeb@kelcom.igs.net>
> To: Apple-Crop <apple-crop@virtualorchard.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Stolen trees
>
> > Our neighbors had someone drive through their 2 year old planting at
> night.
> > They straddled one row for a ways and then drove around at random
through
> > the orchard. Thankfully, I think they only got 40 trees and posts. The
> good
> > news is they were caught. The also knocked off several stop signs in the
> > area. You guessed it, they were drunk and had no insurance. When the
case
> > came to court, I believe the judge made them pay out of their pockets
for
> > tree & post replacement and also some compensation. If I was the judge,
I
> > would have made them come and plant the trees and posts and then come
once
> > a week all summer and water them (by hand). That would have taught them
> > more of a lesson!
> >    We are all prepared to deal with pests in our orchards, however this
> > vandalism & theft stuff is hard to take. If there is that much theft of
> > trees, imagine how much fruit must go missing???
> > Wally Simpson
> > Fruit & Veggie grower
> > Leamington, Ontario, Canda
> >
> > orchards At 10:35 PM 28/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > >We had a car or truck drive through a young cherry orchard in the
middle
> of
> > >the night, destroying about twelve trees and some mini-sprinkler
> irrigation.
> > >Left the road possibly by accident, but not stopping to back
out--rather
> > >continued on and back onto the highway.
> > >neighbor had several trees vanadalized along the highway.  Can not
> believe
> > >digging up growing trees.
> > >--Bill
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Geigorchard@aol.com <Geigorchard@aol.com>
> > >To: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net <apple-crop@virtualorchard.net>
> > >Date: Saturday, April 28, 2001 11:16 AM
> > >Subject: Apple-Crop: Stolen trees
> > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > >   The other night I had something happen to me I never imagined or
> > > >considered would ever occur. Apparently someone thought My apple and
> peach
> > > >orchards were a dig-your-own for free in the middle of the night
> operation.
> > >I
> > > >couldn't believe it! They made off with 12 apple and two peach trees
> and
> > > >destroyed another peach tree. The Sheriff said he thinks it was
someone
> in
> > > >the landscaping business. The dirty sobs drove right past my house,
> down my
> > > >driveway, to the back forty and helped themselves. A real boost for
> your
> > > >faith in humanity huh? We will probably never catch them, but only
hope
> > >they
> > > >will enjoy harvesting that fruit as much as I would have.
> > > >
> > > >  Just something to share from a poor old fruit farmer in Ohio,
> > > >
> > > >                          Brian Geig
> > > >                          Seville, OH
> > > >
> > > > PS. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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