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                                                                  DAY 233
 
                                                  HOWARD LYMAN, Examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.  -- or if there is anything you want to correct.  The
     2        statement is dated July 18th, 1993.
     3
     4        "My name is Howard F. Lyman and I was born in Great Falls,
     5        Montana, on 17th September 1938.  I was raised on a farm
     6        and ranch producing dairy and meat commodities."
     7        A.  The thing I would say about that is I am fourth
     8        generation on our farm.  We produced a wide range of dairy
     9        beef, pork, chicken, grain, corn, silage.
    10
    11   Q.   Right.  I think that is the bit lower down, anyway.  Thank
    12        you.
    13
    14        "I attended Montana State University and graduated in 1961
    15        with a BS degree in General Agriculture.  Upon graduation,
    16        I spent two years in the United States army before
    17        returning to work on the farm."
    18        A.  The degree I achieved in Montana State University was
    19        in all areas of agriculture.  I have a degree which is
    20        called General Agriculture, which meant that I fulfilled
    21        the requirements in all areas such as soil, economics,
    22        agronomics, the entire thing.  So I had a wide ranging
    23        degree from Montana State University.
    24
    25   Q.  "From 1963 to 1983, I was actively engaged in animal and
    26        grain production.  The areas in which I was involved were
    27        dairy, pork, registered Hereford, chicken, range cattle,
    28        feedlot beef production, veal, grain, silage and hay
    29        production."
    30        A.  I would only like to say that as far as raising
    31        registered cattle, that was the area that we worked in
    32        genetics; it was the first time that I had really called in
    33        to wonder about what I had learned in Montana State
    34        University.  We were encouraged at that time, in the
    35        production of Hereford cattle, that they should be short,
    36        blocky animals.  We did that.  We ended up getting a dwarf
    37        gene in our cattle; we ended up having to eliminate our
    38        entire registered Hereford cattle because of the dwarf gene
    39        that was in it.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I am going to stop you there, because I am
    42        not concerned with genetics.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  OK.  "My responsibilities ranged from labour to
    45        total financial management.  I was in charge of all buying
    46        and use decisions of all herbicides, pesticides, hormones
    47        and medication used on the operation and at that time of
    48        liquidation I controlled over 1,000 range cows and calves,
    49        5,000 head of cattle fed annually in confined feedlots, and
    50        several thousands of acres of grain grown each year.  This 
    51        operation was expending several million dollars each year 
    52        and at the maximum I employed over 30 employees." 
    53
    54        Can you just explain about the use of the herbicides and
    55        pesticides and medication?
    56        A.  Yes.  On our farm at that time we were buying hundreds
    57        of thousands of dollars' worth of herbicides, pesticides
    58        hormones and medication.  The herbicides that we were
    59        buying were the ones that you were used on the crops such
    60        as 24D 25D, Emrin, Alrin (?).  Many of those have now been
 
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