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Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken
Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken

Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken

Date12/17/1976
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  • Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken
  • Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family; but after it's in the home; it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family; but after it's in the home; it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018283F
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A day's outing can be lots of fun if family members go out to cut down their won Christmas tree
A day's outing can be lots of fun if family members go out to cut down their won Christmas tree
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Cutting time
Cutting time
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Transplanting a tree is a tough job in any circumstance-but it's a lot harder when the tree is a delicate, 40-foot-high Schwedlerei maple from norther(...)
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Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
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