ROANOKE TIMES  
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, December 5, 1996             TAG: 9612050038
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-1  EDITION: METRO  
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
      Published correction ran on December 6, 1996.
         A photo caption in Thursday's paper incorrectly identified the owner 
      of Slaughter's Tree Farm. He is Lonnie Slaughter.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:
          DON PETERSEN/Staff. 1. Workers at Slaughter's Tree Farm  in 
          Hillsville slip newly cut Christmas trees through a baler (above) as
          others load the trees Wednesday. 2. Bill Harris, a foreman at the 
          tree farm (at right), selects white pines for the harvest. Lonnie  
          Harris owns about 500 acres in Floyd and Hillsville, planted with 15
          varieties of trees. The Fraser fir is the most popular, he says.  
          Slaughter says he expects a good year, selling 15,000 to 20,000  
          trees to retailers, some as far away as New Jersey and Chicago.  
          color.