Show Christmas Trees Pay for College ITHACA N N. No Y Home-grown Home Christmas trees and boys hired as sandwich men to advertise them have helped a former New York state H 4 club member to finance his college education at Cornell sity ity The sale of Christmas trees takes care of half haIt the expenses of Gene Hanson lanson now a sophomore at the New York state college of ture tune In the past three seasons he helas has las harvested trees which sold for from his plantation started nine years ago This December an an- another another another other 75 will go into his till Gene credits his success to a lo local lc cal market near his home to satisfied customers who come back year after year and pay fancy prices rices for special extra-special trees and ando to o advertising including the sand sandwich sandwich sandwich man stunt at basketball games In which he played He also points joints out that tha t his trees were set on good land and were cultivated the first two years 4 II Club Start The youthful forester got his start In the spring of 1932 as a H 4 club member Through his club agent cooperating operating with the state conser conser- conservation department Gene received free Cree 1000 trees which he set out three feet apart in good soil Half Hal the he transplants he planted d were year old Scotch pine and the theother theother theother other trees were year three-year-old Norway spruce Because of this close close spacing it was necessary to move a number of the trees as the side branches closed In but eco trees survived |