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Show Christmas Trees Must Be Tagged Before Marketing All Christmas trees placed on the Utah market this year will be required re-quired by state law to bear a regulation regu-lation tag, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by Paul M. Dunn, dean of the Utah State Agricultural College School of Forestry, and chief forestry fire warden of the state board of forest fire control. Tags to be placed on the trees will be distributed from a central office In each county or the forest office or ranger station. Each dealer deal-er requesting such tags must file in application and also give evidence where the trees were taken from o provide a check on the place of cutting cut-ting after filing an appllcatlo, tags will be available at a small cost. The bill of lading will suffice for trees shipped to Utah from surrounding sur-rounding states. Persons cutting trees on public domain or private land must show that the trees were procured under terms of the state law. If tress are obtained from the Forest Service, Ser-vice, each tree will be tagged by the government with a red tag and need not be tagged again. The purpose of the law Is not to discourage the use of evergreens at Christmas time, according to Mr. Dunn, but to prevent undue waste of the trees and curtail the Illegal cutting and sale of trees. All vendors ven-dors of Christmas trees must have a license under the law. Those Interested In selling trees should get In touch wtlh Mr. Dunn at the VSA.O. at Logan or with the county officials. Mr. Dunn also warned the prospective pros-pective purchasers of Christmas trees, explaining that a purchaser is Just as guilty as the seller if he cannot produce the proper tag. |