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Show Get 68,500,000 Trees for Reforestation Washington. The forest' service serv-ice of the Agriculture department announced that GS,5G5,291 trees .were furnished by 24 states, Hawaii and Porto Rico last year for restocking re-stocking farm timberlands. Coincident with the department's announcement, George Pratt, president pres-ident of (he American Forestry association, as-sociation, long a leader in the cause of forest preservation, called at the White House to urge increased in-creased appropriations of $2,500,-000 $2,500,-000 for forest fire fighting purposes. pur-poses. Pratt told President Hoover much of last year's $3,000,000 damage dam-age to the country's forests could have been averted had there been adequate funds with which to combat com-bat tire. Only $100,000 annually now Is available, he pointed out-Most out-Most of the trees were furnished farmers at cost, the Agriculture department de-partment said 1.'. its announcement, although several states distributed nursery stock fiee. New York and Pennsjlvnla Vod the 34 states, each distributing more than 9,000,-000 9,000,-000 trees. |