Show 4 H 4 Forestry ores r Champions Know Woodlot Potentialities 1 t th tt h i I t r. r f 1 b r l rt S t r I L eft i 1 1 iN r j raA j r w wOne One of 19 1949 state 4 4 ti tl Club C forestry champions ions and a oral a local club advisor examine young pines that Ibal started him aim out on a forestry career Four H forestry lessors lessons will ill later aler pay dividends In regular cash rash crops harvested on OIl managed well farm As an incentive to local farm boys and girls to turn their woodlots and small timber tracts into money-making money properties four college scholarships ps of each uch are being offered again this year in the H 4 Club forestry project All AH H 4 Club members working under Exten Exten- Extension Extension Extension sion Service supervision and enrolled during durine the current year in a H 4 Club forestry project are eligible to compete for or national awards As in previous years top awards will w J be made on a sectional basis to the boy or girl having the best forestry record in each of the four foor Extension Service ce sections of o the Nation In ad addition ad- ad addition addition to the scholarships national winner win win- winners winnen ners ner will be given paid expense trips to the National H 4 Club Con Con- Congress Congress Contras gress tras to be held in Chicago November 26 30 inclusive Medals will be he awarded to each state winner This u is the third consecutive year American Forest Products Industries a national profit non association of o wood dependent industries his has spon spon- sponsored spon-I spon sponsored I the H 4 Club forestry project I In n the put past two years years' competition on eight ei ht of the college scholarships and free trips have been won by farm fann youths from rom the states of Arkansas Georgia Idaho Montana New York and Wisconsin the latter fatter two states having had bad national winners both years It is most gratifying to see the up up- upsurge upsurge upsurge surge of interest in forestry that is being shown by H 4 Club members everywhere declared Charles A. A Gil- Gil Gillett Gillett lett managing director of American Amerian Forest Products Industries in announcing announcing ing the associations association's continuing spon spon- sponsorship sponsorship sponsorship of the scholarship awards for or 1950 19 JO SO These young people a a learn leun- learning leuning learning ing the basic fundamentals of sound timber management and how to apply them to the farm fum woodlots wood loti of Amer Amer- ica Certainly this assures an even greater progress in private printe forest man man- management management management in the next half century and an ever increasing wood supply for this Nation and the wJ world The local loal county extension agent will wilf supply detailed information about the H 4 forestry project and 2nd the 1910 awards those and awaiting boys girls i iwho Iwho iwho who excel acel in forestry |