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One day he returned to started by Mitch Lynd and 3 colleagues and has already So Jerry came up with a way to “insulate” the metal boom. college to visit his old professors and saw a dog attacking a developed several new apple varieties, including the He purchased 1-in. thick rubber mats from Tractor Supply small child on campus. He quickly jumped on the dog and commercially successful EverCrisp. Company that would normally be used in cattle trailers or strangled it. The next day, the local newspaper wrote a story According to a recent article in The horse stalls. He covered the boom with them, drilling holes with the headline, “Valiant Student Saves Boy From Fear- New Pioneer, here’s how that tasty along the edges of the mats and then wrapping them around some Dog”. Indignantly, Ole called the editor of the paper and asked that new variety came to be. the conveyor. He fastened them in place with 1/2-in. dia. bolts that run under the boom. There’s no longer any risk of metal a correction be issued, pointing out that he was no longer just Lynd collected apple a student, but a very successful lawyer. pollen from his orchard and took it to coming into contact with live power lines. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerry Nobile, 58 Jerry The next day, the paper issued a correction with a headline another grower in the group who had that read, “Pompous Lawyer Kills School Mascot.” apple trees that were ready to bloom. They pollinated Nobile Rd., Moorhead, MS 38761. (Klaire Howerton) the Fuji trees with Honeycrisp pollen and then marked the When her son reached 10 years of age, Lena started to realize branches they had treated, picking the from those he didn’t look like anyone else in the family. So she and her Quotes son took a DNA test and she found out the child was not hers. branches in the fall and saving the seeds to plant the next She told her husband, Ole, what she had found. He replied, year. From those fi rst plantings, one tree was exceptional and “Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.” Patricia Sampson “Vell, Lena. Vhat’s da matter vit yew? Don’t yew remember it became the mother tree of the now-successfi ul EverCrisp vhen ve vere leaving da hospital da baby pooped his diaper variety. “No man shall rule over me without my consent. I will and yew tolt me to go and change him. 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Hence they monopolize it more and more.” guys.” Canada but the truth is that we’re already doing a good job Francisco Ferrerl of keeping plastic out of oceans. A study published in the Ole goes to answer a knock at the door one evening to fi nd “The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social journal Environmental Sciences and Technology reported two sheriff’s deputies standing there. forces in confl ict, not the triumph of any one force.” “Sir, are you married?” one deputy asked. that up to 95% of plastic waste in the oceans comes from just Max Eastman 10 rivers worldwide, all of them in third world countries. In “Vhy, yes,” Ole replied, “Lena and I have been married for “The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to another report, Science magazine said the U.S. contributes 48 years.” be offended. The risk of fi nding someone else’s speech “Do you have a photograph of your wife, sir?” the second less than 1 percent of the plastic litter in the world’s oceans. offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free deputy questioned. So instead of building giant machines to suck plastic out of speech. Free people don’t run to court - or to the principal Ole pulled a picture out of his wallet and handed it to the the ocean, we should go to the mouths of trash-fi lled rivers in - when they encounter a message they don’t like. They offi cers. They looked it over and handed it back to him. India, Africa, and Southeast Asia and clean those up before the answer it with one of their own.” Jeff Jacoby “Sir, I’m sorry, but it looks like your wife, Lena, has been trash even gets into the ocean. 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