Cider Digest #0822

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Subject: Cider Digest #822, 16 August 1999 
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Cider Digest #822                                         16 August 1999 

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                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  Oak Barrels (L T S) 
  orchard in danger (Greg Appleyard) 

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Subject: Oak Barrels 
From: L T S <azureyes99@juno.com> 
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:31:05 EDT 

I recently found a large whisky barrel of about 50 gallons.  I appears 
clean, but in need of some repairs.  Does anyone have any information on 
recycling something like this? 

Any insights would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Lawrence Scott 

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Subject: orchard in danger 
From: Greg Appleyard <greg.appleyard@usask.ca> 
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:53:31 -0400 

For the Ontario readers of this digest, I am passing along the 
following request. 

>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:09:21 -0400 
>From: Elizabeth Goetz <goetz@csolve.net> 
>Subject: orchard in danger 

>     An acquaintance of mine in Port  McNicoll has a number of apple trees 
>which he grafted some years ago. When the  Heritage Apple Orchard was to be 
>cut down (near Niagara?), he obtained a large  quantity of branches from 
>most varieties, and he has been very successful. One  tree has 26 varieties 
>on it. Some of these varieties, he tells me, are no longer  in existence 
>elsewhere. As he is getting too old to tend to his orchard, he is  talking 
>of cutting down a number of these trees. He does not think that anyone  
>would be interested in them. Help me prove him wrong. If you, or you know 
>of anyone who  might be interested in these trees, please let me know, and 
>I will let him  know. Thanks, Elizabeth  Goetz  

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