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Show On Utah County Farms With County Extension Agent j golden willow, Siberian pea tree j and catalpa. i According to present weather ! indications, the shipping season : will open about April 1, says Mr. , Dunn. Requests for the planting stock should be made as soon as, possible since the orders will be filled as they are received. The i 1935 prices vary from SI. 50 to $4 , per hundred trees, which includes , the cost of shipping. ! Particular information relative to farm forestry problems may be obtained from the local county extension agents or the extension service at Logan. ! It will always be a sore spot and will detract very much from the natural beauty of the home grounds. ' I Again, we see in almost every j community, trees and shrubs that have been given a "dutch cut." That is, the tops have been cut off square, thus leaving a flat top. A tree or shrub thus topped ' has lost its beauty and usefulness useful-ness and soon becomes just a "crow's nest" and can just as well be removed entirely. Trees and shrubs should be allowed al-lowed to grow into their natural form and shape to be beautiful. We cannot make a spreading tree out of a tree that naturally grows straight up; neither can we make a spreading tree grow. up. It is out of harmony with nature if we attempt to do so. Prune trees to make them look natural, advises Mr. Hogenson. If a limb is out of symmetry, or if the limbs are too thick or too many on one side, thin them out by cutting off the entire limb smoothly right down to the trunk of the tree and parallel with it. This will make the tree symmetrical symmetri-cal and it will continue to be a thing of beauty, and increase in beauty as the years go by. . ItlSfi AAA IMKHiKAMS DKSUiX-KD DKSUiX-KD TO OITSKT Ki rtXTS of DKOrUHT With all of the major agricul- j tural adjustment programs for J35 designed to bring about increases in-creases over li)34 production, unbalanced un-balanced conditions brought about by the unprecedented drought of 1934 are expected to be largely offset this year, reports William Peterson, director of Utah extension exten-sion service. On the assumption of normal growing conuitions, it ij, indicated indi-cated that farmers of the United States will produce in 1935 about 70 percent more grains than in 1934, and about the same large volume of truck crops and fruit. Even in the case of cotton with twice the normal carryover, a substantial increase over last year's acreage is provided for in the 1935 contract. Production of poultry this year is expected to be only about 5 per cent less than in 1934 and about a 5 per cent reduction from the high daii'y production of 1934 is expected this year. Due to the heavy marketings which farmers were forced to make by the drought, substantial reductions in slaughter of cattle and sheep may be expected. Adjustments of hog numbers under the corn-hog program pro-gram and the government corn plan program resulted in a more orderTy reduction of slaughter of hogs. Increases in food costs since last summer largely reflect the shortage short-age in crops and livestock most affected by the drought. Retail food costs which in 1929, prior to the depression, were 150 per cent of the pre-war level, declined to pre-war levels m 1933, average 109 percent of pre-war in 1934 and after recent sharp advances in livestock products, are now only about 120 per cent of pre-war, or 30 points below the 1929 average. IXCIIKASED INTEREST MANIFEST MANI-FEST IN UTAH THEE PLANTING An increased interest in tree planting thfs coming spring by Utah farmers is assured, if orders for trees from the Utah State Agricultural college nursery can be taken as an indicator, reports Paul M. Dunn, forester for the Utah extension service at Logan. Orders as of March 8 show more than 11 per cent increase over 1934 for the same period. Requests for small forest trees have reached 15,000 for this year in contrast to 13,500 for 1934. Orders have been received from all cooperators in comparison to 80 in the previous period. These trees will be planted in windbreaks and woodlots in 16 counties of the state.. Salt Lake county is leading lead-ing with number of orders and Box Elder is second. The tree that is most in demand is the Siberian elm; and nearly 6,000 of this species, or 40 per cent of the total number, have been ordered. Other species that are being requested for planting are Russian olive, honey locust, green ash, ponderosa pine, blue spruce, black walnut, black locust, PRESERVE NATURAL BEAUTY OF HOME GROUNDS All over the state the beauty of hundreds of homes has been marred by the improper pruning or otherwise maltreatment of the trees and shrubs that belong to its grounds, observes J. C. Hogenson, of the Utah extension service at Logan. In almost every community commun-ity you can see these mistreated trees standing as silent ghosts where axes have been used to cut off most of the top, leaving each limb just a stump two or three feet long. Such a tree will never become a thing of beauty again. n |