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Show lAre Pleased With Tree Planting Many farmers of South Milfurtl are to hi; vongrutula'tn-d on their splendid farm forest tri-(. planting. plant-ing. In a survey of farms made Tuesday afternoon the record ; show that, while only 10 percent of the farms have what might he called complete pnjection lo farmsU-ad, crops and soil, yet oO ; percent do hav; satisfactory pro-' pro-' tection, which is far above' the nation's na-tion's average. This is a splen-j splen-j did tribute to the concentrated ef-. ef-. forts of County Agent' Hyrum ! Stoffen and F.xtention Forester ' J. Whitney Floyd, who have sponsored spon-sored thi.-f important phase of I farm practices. The remaining 40 percent of the farmers of this area probably are not aware of the help available avail-able to them through the state extension service, not only in pi viding assistance in selecting, planting, and caring for the trees, but also in obtaining trees at less ! than the cost of production. A satisfactory farm tree plant-j plant-j ing adds from $500 to $1500 to the I value of the farm and can be accomplished ac-complished at very little cost. There has been a greatly increased increas-ed interest in farm forestry the country over the past year and it is recognized that the additional technical assistance made., available avail-able to farmers is more than justified by the increased returns to the farmers. IMr. Floyd, County Agent Stef-fen Stef-fen and A. M. Sowder, of the United States department of agriculture, agri-culture, extension forester for the central and western states, joined in making Tuesday's inspection. ;Farmers desiring trees under this planting program are in : formed that they may yet send in their orders but they must be in before May 1. Orders may be i placed through County Agent j Steffen or direct to the U. S. A. C. at Logan. |