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Show USU Completes Study On Preferences In Christmas Trees Ever wonder how your taste for typos of Christmas trees compares com-pares with what other people prefer and use? To determine people's reasons for using natural or artificial trees, more than 1800 house-I house-I holds were sampleded In 12 prin-i prin-i cipal cities of six Intermountain states during the 1964 Christmas season. John D. Hunt, ssistant professor In the Forest Science Department and Extension Forest For-est Outdoor Recreation Specialist at Utah State University, and William G. Poulson, former assistant as-sistant state forester, Utah Depart- "nt of Forestry and Fire Control, published the results in a recent article titled "Buying Artificial or Natural Christmas Trees?" It appeared in the Journal Jour-nal of Forestry. They found that use of natural natur-al Christmas trees by state, ranged rang-ed from 76.4 percent to 54.8 percent. per-cent. For artificial trees the range was from 22.7 percent to 7.6 percent. per-cent. Economy of using artificial Christmas trees was the major motivation for those who used them. Tradition was the major reason offered by natural tree users for their selection. Annual purchases of articiflal Christmas trees seems to be increasing, in-creasing, they said. Recently, however, the rate of increase has lessened compared to the first years that such trees were on the market. In Utah, 66.2 percent of the sampled families used natural trees while the remainder either had no tree at all or an artificial tree. |