Morgan County News | 1946-12-20 | Page 2 | 15 Million Evergreens Will Brighten Holiday

15 million evergreens Ever Eyer greens will brighten dolid holiday ay washington more than 15 million christmas trees will brighten the nations homes this holiday season officials of the forest service predict selling christmas trees is a big undertaking agriculture department marketing specialists are on the job trying to prevent any section of the country from having its market glutted most of the trees come from the northwest montana alone supplying one sixth efthem ithem of them canada furnishes most of those used in the east shipping about five million into the united states the forest service likes to see young evergreens ever greens utilized for the holiday trade according to forester arthur M souder the cutting he adds is really a weeding out process as most of t the he young growth Is marked tor for eradication to prevent crowding salable timber