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Show 4-H Forestry Champions Know Woodlot Potentialities . l ; ... j , , -v - ' ft?!- :-. . " r fLtjfeMa.a.fr.:g .. One of I949's state 4-H Club forestry champions and a local club advisor examine young pines that started him out on a forestry ; career. Four-H forestry lessons will later pay dividends in regular ! cash crops harvested on well-managed farm woodlots. As an incentive to local farm boys and girls to turn their woodlots ! and small timber tracts into money-making properties, four college j scholarships of $300 each are being offered again this year in the 4-H I. Club forestry project. All 4-H Club members, working under Exten- i sion Service supervision and enrolled during the current year in a 4-H ! tMD rorestry project, are eligible to compete for national awards. As in previous years, top awards will be made on a sectional basis to the boy or girl having the best forestry record in each of the four Extension Service sections of the Nation. In addition ad-dition to the scholarships, national winners win-ners will be given all-expense-paid trips to the 29th National 4-H Club Congress Con-gress to be held in Chicago, November 26-30 inclusive. Medals will be awarded to each state winner. This is the third consecutive year American Forest Products Industries, a national non-profit association of wood-dependent industries, has sponsored spon-sored the 4-H Club forestry project. In the past two years' competition, eight of the college scholarships and free trips have been won by farm youths from the states of Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New York and Wisconsin, the latter two states having had national winners both : years. "It is most' gratifying to see the up- ' surge of interest in forestry that is being shown by 4-H Club members everywhere," declared Charles A. Gil-Iett, Gil-Iett, managing director of American Forest Products Industries, in announcing announc-ing the association's continuing sponsorship spon-sorship of the scholarship awards for 19 JO. "These young people are learning learn-ing the basic fundamentals of sound timber management and how to apply them to the farm woodlots of America. Amer-ica. Certainly this assures an even greater progress in private forest management man-agement in the next half century and an ever increasing wood supply for this Nation and the world." The local county extension agent will supply detailed information about the 4-H forestry project and the 1950 awards awaiting those boys and girls who excel in forestry. |
