Thanks to Vonnie Kolbenschlag for her great poem concerning the butchering of our lovely trees in Adair County. Anyone who knows the slightest bit about tree pruning knows that this action is a true assault upon a tree and condemns it to a premature death. A healthy tree needs its branches and leaves to complete the process that is necessary for it's life.

If you look around the county at our many beautiful old trees you will notice that they have never been "topped". The only party that profits from this procedure is the tree trimmer- not the tree owner and certainly not the tree itself. Let's have trees that look like trees instead of bushes. --Delwin K Blair