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Show Nursery Trees Are Again Available Approximately 4,600 small forest trees have been planted on Beaver county farms during the past six years for windbreak and woodlot purposes, according to J. Whitney Floyd, extension forester for the Utah State Agricultural college extension service at Logan. These trees are obtained from the forest nursery, which is maintained main-tained by the college for the purpose pur-pose of supplying planting- stock to farmers at a low cost. About ten different kinds of trees have been planted in Beaver county, the predominating pre-dominating species including Siberian Si-berian elm, black locust, black walnut, wal-nut, and Russian olive, in the order named. Beaver county should be particularly parti-cularly interested in windbreak planting. Areas such as the Milford Mil-ford flat can be made more profitable pro-fitable and attractive by the selection selec-tion and planting of good windbreak wind-break trees. Siberian elm and Russian Rus-sian olive have proved very satis-fatory satis-fatory here, reports County Agent Golden Stoker. The shipping season will probably proba-bly start about April 1 this year; and trees may still be purchased from the college nursery at Logan at rries avera-niv: about S2 per hundred., which includes shipping ch-vge- More than 2S.000 trees have been ordered for 1937 planting- to date. Mr. Floyd stated. Order blanks or other information informa-tion pertaining to tree planting may be obtained from County Agent Stoker, or by writing to the extension service at Logan. |