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Show ij If'H Forestry Champions iknoiv Woodlot Potentialities iF&FSL : My ' k 0(mm mm ill V"e f IWs state 411 Club forestry champions and a local club iWisor examine young pines that started him out on a forestry freer. Tour-ll forestry lessons will later pay dividends in regular frb crops harvested on well-managed farm woodlots. If Aj an incentive to local farm boys and girls to turn their woodlots I ni small timber tracts into money-making properties, four college f Scholarships of $300 each are being offered again this year in the -n ub forestry project. All 4-H Club members, working under txten- 'on Service suixrvision and enrolled during the current year in a 4-n -'"h forestry project, are eligible to' I ompete for national awards. ' j.n' Prcviou' years, top awards "lade on a sectional basis to the by or girl having the best forestry Record in each of the four Extension -fKt sections of the Nation. In ad-I ad-I ltlon t0 the scholarships, national win-j1"5'1'1 win-j1"5'1'1 he g.ven all-expcnse-paid trips - t0 the 29th National 4-H Club Congress Con-gress to be held in Chicago, November I 6"30 "Elusive. Medals wUl be awarded t0 each state winner. I a " lk'r consecutive year .jAmencan Forest Products Industries, j" national non-profit association of oo, -dependent industries, has spon-.d spon-.d the 4-H Club forestry project, i. , past two years' competition, 'irS f the coI'ege scholarships and Krv'V have been by farm G s from the " of Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, New York ! d owua. the latter two Kates 'having had national winners both years. , "It is most gratifying to see the upsurge up-surge of interest in forestry that is being shown by 4-H Club member, everywhere," declared Charles A Gd-lett, Gd-lett, managing d.rector of Amencan Forest Products Industries, in announcing announc-ing the association's continuing spon-,orship spon-,orship of the scholarship award, for 1950. "These young people are learning learn-ing the basic fundamentals of sound timber management and how to apply them to the farm woodlots of Amer ica. Certainly this assures an even greater progress in private forest man-fjement man-fjement in the next half century and ! ever increasing wood supply for du. Nation and the world. The local county extension .gen will supply detailed uiformation ab.ut the 4-H forestry project and the 19 f 9 .ward, .waiting th d who excel in foroary. |