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Show Windbreak Trees Now Available Farmers and ranchers should place their orders now for trees and shrubs to be used in farm windbreak plantings this spring, I advises Grant A. Harris, Extension ! Forester and Range Specialist of j the Utah State Extension Service. ' Planes should be made right now j to outline the size of tree planings desired and get orders mailed to the State Extension Office in Logan Lo-gan as soon as possible, he says. Farmers can get advise and order blanks from County Extension Agent Joel C. Barlow, or directly from the Extension Forester. The trees offered for sale are produced under cooperative agreement agree-ment between the Clarke-McNary Forest Tree Nursery, at Logan, operated by the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural Colleg School of Forest, Range, and wildlife Management, and the Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Fifteen different kinds of tree and shrub seedlings are available from the' Clarke-McNary Nursery this year. They , vary in price, depending de-pending on species, from $1.50 to $4.00 per hundred seedlings, postpaid post-paid in Utah. Kinds of .trees include in-clude Eastern Red Cedar, Rocky Mountain Juniper, Ponderosa Pine Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir, Green Ash, Siberian Elm, Black Locust, Russion Olive, Black Walnut, Golden Gol-den Willow, Lombardy Popular, Multiflora Rose, and Squaw Bush. Thornless Honey Locust and Common Com-mon Lilac, which are usally offered of-fered for sale, will not be available until 1955. Orders will be filled in the sequence recieved, so for a complete selection, orders should arrive early. During 1953, the Clarke-McNary Tree Nursery distributed 100,000 seedlings in Utah. This many trees and shrubs, if planted in a continous three row windbreak, wind-break, would stretch for more than sixty miles. |