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Show Ask to See Christmai Tree Tag HAVE you bought your Christmas tree yet? No? Well, here's a suggestion. Don't buy nenless-it4as--ChrUtmas.tree tag on It That tag Is your assurance that the tree you" buy has been properly cut, that Its removal has not endangered all-Important watersheds. The tags are ordinary white shipping tags, with a green pine tree and green lettering printed on them. They are easy to recognize. Most Christmas trees offered for sale In Salt Lake City have them, J. Whitney Floyd, extension forester of the Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college, believes. But inasmuch as there Is no law In this city requiring tree vendors to have the tags on trees they sell, forest officials Interested in the program must depend on the force of public opinion to compel all vendors to have the tags and thus Insure that Christmas tree cutting does not Injure our watersheds. The whole future security and prosperity of Utah depends so greatly on its water supply, and therefore on Its watershed cover of trees, brush and grass, that every Utahn should be '"pieasTdoyo'ur part. Before you buy a tree, ask to see the tag. That Isn't asking much. But It will holp to f" ""r watershed timber, our water, our farms and our Jobs. That makes it pretty Important |