Show Christmas Trees Pay for College ITHACA N. N Y Home-grown Home Christmas trees and boys hired as sandwich men to advertise them have helped a former New York state H 4 4 club member to finance his college education at Cornell sity The sale of Christmas trees takes care of half the expenses of Gene Hanson now a sophomore at the New York state college of ture In the past three seasons he has harvested trees which sold for from tram his plantation started nine years ago This December another another another an an- other 75 will go into his till Gene credits his success to a local local lo lo- cal market near his home to satisfied customers who come back year after year and I pay fancy prices for special extra-special trees and to advertising including the sandwich sandwich sandwich sand man stunt at basketball games in which he played He also points out that his trees were set on good land and were cultivated the first two years 4 11 Club Start The youthful forester got his start in the spring sprung of 1932 as a H 4 club member Through his club agent operating co-operating with the state conservation conservation conser conser- department Gene received free 1000 trees which he set out three feet apart in good soil Hall Half the transplants he planted were year old Scotch pine and the theother theother theother other trees were year three Norway spruce Because of this I I close spacing it was necessary to move a number of the trees as I the side branches closed in but BOO I trees survived |