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Abstract:
Concern of Watauga County farmers about childhood leukemia brought a change in pesticide and herbicide use. Crop and Christmas tree yields are up, wildlife has increased, and the leukemia rate has fallen in six years.
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Watauga County is the state's third largest Christmas-tree-growing county. The 1995 harvest of around 700,000 trees accounts for forty-two percent of the county's $34.5 million farm income.