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Show Extension Forester Gives Information About Farm Trees Move Cam iVe.000 yotuv; ever-' given and lia'dwood (roes are now available lo Utah fanners,! j Whitney FUnl, Kxtcnsinn for-' ester of the U;ih Agricultural ; Servi.e. repo'ls. The trees avail- able ate of eleven varieties, ail suit a We to the averaa.c planting conditions in the1 stale. j Production costs hae been reduced re-duced this year, Mr. Floyd states, making it possible for farmers lo p'ocure trees at a minimum of ten dollars for 1,000 trees. Further Fur-ther encouragement is given farmers far-mers to plant trees under the 10-11 Agricultural Adjustment administration ad-ministration program as payments may be received for planting trees for woodlots, sheiterbclts, and windbreaks. A payment of seven an done-half dollars for trees planted and eared for. The trees available for planting are: blue spruce, eastern red cedar, ce-dar, ponderosa pine, green ash, Siberian elm, Russian olive, black locust, honey locust, golden willow, Siberian pea tree, and black walnut. wal-nut. The tree planting program is sponsored by the extension service and by the provision of the Clark i McNary law which provides for federal cooperation in the production pro-duction and distribution of small . tree planting stock. The distribution program will begin be-gin about March ' 15. Trees may be ordered by farmers on printed order blanks which will be sent out upon request to the Extension Exten-sion Forester's office at the Utah State Agricultural college or to the offices of the county agents in the various counties. |