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Show I . FARM NOTES i BY HYRUM STEFFEN Heaver ("ountv Agent t Crass Has "It-Dried "It-Dried tender grass contains 23 times as much vitamin A as carrots, car-rots, 22 times as much vitamin B-2 as lettuce, nine times as much B-l as green leafy vegetables, and 14 times as much C as tomatoes and citrus fruits, a Cornell scientist scien-tist reports. About 12 pounds of dried tender grass would supply enough vitamins to last a man for an entire year. In addition to the known min-. erals and vitamins, tender grass recently was found to contain something else, not yet recognized, recogniz-ed, but tentatively called the grass-juice factor. It made experimental ex-perimental animals grow better than when fed on milk produced with the more usual winter diet. Young grass and clover-herbage that comes from really good pastures, pas-tures, properly managed, has an extraordinarily high feeding value, according to scientists. Weight for weight, it somewhat resembles milk itself, and there is no better feed for farm animals. 4-H Clubs to Plant Trees During Spring More than 5,500 Utah 4-H club members are urged to plant trees and shrubs as a part of their spring project work, David Sharp jr., assistant state club leader, announces. J. Whitney Floyd, extension forester, and LaVal Morris, professor pro-fessor of landscape architecture at the Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, are cooperating in the program pro-gram by giving information on where and how to plant trees and shrubs. Trees which are planted at this time will improve the general landscape of the state and later provide shade and shelter, Mr. Sharp states. ''If a similar program is promoted pro-moted each year until the 1947 centennial celebration, Utah will be beautified by more than 30,000 trees", the club leader explains. |