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Show Law Requires Tags on Xmas Trees All Christmas trees placed on market in Utah this year are required re-quired by state law to bear a regulation tag, Paul M. Dunn, dean Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege School of Forestry and chief forestry-fire warden of the state board of forest and fire control announces. Tags to be placed on all trees will be distributed from a central office in each county or the local forest office. Each dealer requesting request-ing tags, must file an application i and also give evidence where tha ; trees were taken from to provide a. check on the place of cutting. After filing an application, tags will be available at a small cost, Mr. Dunn announces. The bill of lading -will suffice for trees shipped ship-ped to Utah from surrounding states. Persons cutting trees on public domain or private land must show that the trees were procured procur-ed under terms of the state law. If trees are obtained from the Forest Service, each tree will be tagged by the government with a red tag and needn't be tagged again. The purpose of the law, Dean Dunn explains, is not to discourage discour-age the use of evergrens at Xmas time, but to prevent undue waste of the trees and curtail the illegal il-legal cutting and sale of trees. All vendors of Christmas trees must have a license under the law or ordinances of the county or city in which the trees are sold. This will require the passing of special ordinances in some communities, com-munities, Mr. Dunn points out. A program similar to this was carried out by the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College extension service ser-vice and the United States Forest Service in 1939 and 1940 in Cache, Box Elder, Morgan, Salt Lake, Utah and Carbon counties. As a result of this program, the waste of Christmas trees declined from more than 30 percent in 1939 to three percent in 1940. Further information concerning the program may be obtained from the School of Foerstry at the Utah State Agricultural college, Mr. Dunn concludes. |