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Show STATE IS LOW ON FARM WOOD LAND The 161. 22S acres of National and planted farm wood lots in Utah is less than in any State except Rhode Island and Nevada. According to the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook Year-book for 1925. Nevada with S6.5S4 acres has the lowest area of any State in the Union. Utah and Nevada Nev-ada have a good chance to make farm wood land, suitable for nothing else but growing trees, really productive. produc-tive. They can secure cooperation from the Federal Government under the Clarke-McNary Act which provides pro-vides also for no expense to the State except the original investment, and the State is reimbursed in full for this. The importance of the farm wood lot in the economy of farming has been largely overlooked, although it has some distinct advantages, according accord-ing to E. N. Munns, chief of forest experiment stations, United States Department of Agriculture. One of the chief advantages of the farm woods is the part they might and occasionally oc-casionally do play in diversified farming. There, is another advantage in the farm wood lot says Mr. Munns, and that is the possibilitiy of winter employment em-ployment afforded the farm owner at a time when other farm work is relatively re-latively slack. Furthermore, it enables en-ables him to grow on his own laud and without much cash outlay a considerable con-siderable part of his. timber and fuel requirements. |