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Show FARMNOTES The bud-graft long used in propagating pro-pagating fruit and nut trees is being used by the United States department of agriculture to propagate pro-pagate evergreens. At the forest service experiment station in California Cali-fornia are several new seedling eros-es grafted successfully to ponderosa pine rootstocks. Forest tree breeding has developed slowly beeause it was thought that evergreens ever-greens such as pine and fir, must lie grown from the seed. Sixty-seven percent, or more than 'JS.1, 000,000 acres, of the total crop land in the United States was covered by applications for grants' made by farmers under the lOofi a i' rii'ultural conservation program of the agricultural adjustment ad- ministration, according to the an- i nual report of H. R. Tolley, admis-trator. admis-trator. Approximately 3,000,000 . applicants, representing perhaps 1,000,000 farmers and based on more than 4,200,000 worksheets, were signed under the program. |