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Show U. Sc Forest Service Suggests Willow Industry for Utah The war has cut off the supply of willow rods for American manufacturers manufactur-ers of willow furniture, which has hitherto co'me principally from England, Eng-land, Belgium, Holland. France, and Germany Japanese osiers are to some extent taking the place of wll low rods previously get from normally, nor-mally, at a slightlj higher price, and finished willow baskets from Japan have come in where split bamboo was the only Japanese baketware on sale before the war. As a result of the war, therefore, the opportunities for kiskei willow-culture willow-culture are better than before, according accord-ing to forestry officials, and it is possible that waste land along irrigation irri-gation ditches and in places subject to overflow in the intermountain country' coun-try' could be utilized in establishing ai willow "holt Cuttings would he supplied free from the experimental holt conducted by the department of agriculture on the government farm near Arlington, i Land that now produces willow, alder, birch, and cotton woods would usually be adapted to the production oi the cultivated willows from which the choice rods are obtained. oo |