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Port Perry Star, 25 Jul 1973, p. 5

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Ce da iit A 5 & A PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 18th, 1973 -- 21 Orr OGG 6 PV VV VV VV & POPOV OVOIVOVOT Summer Need Special $2.50, sheet OOP POOOP DRESS IS OPTIONAL when picking your own berries as June Gordon, 18, and Cheryl Wright, 16, Pick your own berries craze comes to Port Perry The "Pick Your Own" demonstrate. There is a lot of bending involved and there is no shade in a strawberry patch. supermarket prices have However, Mrs. Parkinson bridge can supply you with raspberry season has just started at Parkinson's berry farm on the 8th concession of Reach, two miles north of Port Perry, but if you want strawberries you had better get out there tomorrow. The Parkinson's say the straw- berrry season will end by the weekend at the latest, but it could be all over by Thursday night. Raspberries are good for another three weeks. . The Ontario Department of Agriculture in a release placed new popularity on the pick your own craze. A number of farms in the county are cashing in on the craze, but in the Port Perry area Parkinsons is the only farm offering berries at about half the supermarket price, if you pick them yourself. This year they have sold a large part of their 40 acre strawberry patch in this way, and they expect pick your own bargain hunters to gobble up nearly all of their told the STAR that high supermarket prices are not the only factors contributing to the craze. High labour costs make it the only prac- tical way for the farmers to get a fair shake in the complicated food business. If you want to drive far enough you can save money by picking almost anything yourself this year. The Dept. of Agriculture in Ux- a whole list of vegetable farms and orchards in Ont- ario and Durham counties where all kinds of food is available cheap, for the picking. The list contains the addresses of 67 farms within driving distance which are part of the pick your own fad. It is one way to beat the middle man. 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Hin Agriculture and Food, has named an Advisory 085 30 k )] y Committee to study and make recommendations = Y on the feasibility of classifying farms, types ; oY . of farms, or farm operations and the applica- Ralph Grant % tion of such a system of classification to 3 Fairman Menzies J | Ontario legislation affecting farms or farm . i operations. h ° oo 1968 BUICK 1969 CUTLASS 1969 CAMERO > In order to provide an opportunity for indivi- SKYLARK, 2 door hardtop, V-8, SUPREME 2 door hardtop, 350 cu. 2 DOOR HARDTOP, 350 V-8, pi duals and organizations to express their automatic, p.s., p.b., radio, white- in. 4 barrel, automatic, p.s., p.b., automatic, p.s., p.b., radio, bucket ey opinions on these matters, a series of public walls, wheel discs, finished in fire radio, whitewalls, rally wheels, seats and console. Forest green = meetings have been arranged. mist red with contrasting all vinyl M desert sand exterior with con- outside, black vinyl inside. 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