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Show Yulelide Tree Tagging Set Tagging of Christmas tree at 'locations where the trees are cut instead of marketing and distribu-I distribu-I tion points- Saturday had been ordered or-dered by the state board of for-; for-; estry and fire control. The new regulation was adopted to improve administration of the state law designed to protect for- est areas and prevent glutting of 1 the Christmas tree market, ft was explained after a meeting at the office of R. Harvey Dastrup, state ' agriculture' commissioner and j chairman of the board. I Consumers were urged to buy ; only trees bearing the familiar I varicolored taps indicating the j conventional Yule household adornment has been made available avail-able without undua danger being I inflicted on the forests, said John E. Burt Jr, state forester. I J. Whitney Floyd, chief state forester, reported to the greup progress made on new national legislation increasing financial aid -to states for forest protection. The measure, now said to be pending pend-ing in committees of the house and senate, would increase the l&.OOO,-000 l&.OOO,-000 now allotted annually for state aid to S20.0O0.0O0. said Mr. Burt. |