The legislature most recently amended the provisions of Section 3 of 

 Chapter 40A in Chapter 40 of the Acts of 1982. That amendment specifically 

 added a clause allowing farmers to sell products from their land provided such 

 products were produced by the farmer himself. It seems clear to the Court that 

 the legislature intended in the adoption of Section 3 of Chapter 40A to permit 

 farmers to sell products produced on land owned by them although the location 

 of that land might not be contiguous to the place where the sale actualy 

 occurred. 



Based on the Stipulations of Fact and Rulings of Law, it is ORDERED AND 

 ADJUDGED that Christmas trees grown by William Spence & Sons, Inc., d/b/a 

 Sepnce Brothers, on any land owned by them can be sold by said William Spence & 

 Sons, Inc., d/b/a Spence Brothers, from the property owned by them at 40-42 West 

 Street, Reading, Massachusetts, under the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 40A 

 of the Massachusetts General Laws. 



state Food and Agriculture Commissioner Frederic Winthrop, Jr., (right) presents 

 "Massachusetts Grown and Fresher" flag to Michael V. Fair (left). Commissioner 

 of the State Department of Correction. The ceremonies at the Northeastern 

 Correctional Center in Concord honored the Center's farm program and its dairy 

 herd, which has been named by the Massachusetts Dairy Herd Improvement Association 

 three consecutive years as the most improved dairy herd in Massachusetts. 



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