Show TREE PLANTING BY FARMERS MAKES BIG GAIN IN UTAH many utah farmers are arc now adapting to their own farms the experience in in tree planting devel coped in the prairie state program ot of planting field windbreaks says J whitney floyd extension fores ter of the utah state agricultural college success of the plains project is widely reflected in increased tree planting on oil farms mr air floyd pointed out that recent forest service reports show that farmers have more than doubled their tree planting acrivi itice ties since 1935 when the prairie states forestry project was started in the dakotas nebraska kansas oklahoma and the texas panhandle under the federal state cooper active alive distribution program authorized by the clarke mcnary act farmers in 41 states and 2 territories planted trees n 1933 as compared with in in 1935 utah farmers planted trees in 1938 1933 compared to in 1935 and so far this year about have been sent out to farmers in the state these windbreaks have been planted on 2000 farms in utah forester floyd pointed out ile he says that many farmers are now considering the planting of more woodlands especially on unused parts of the farm or on eroding hillsides hill sides or of tree windbreaks in areas where they will benefit croplands crop lands one of the new and interesting uses to which windbreaks are being adapted in utah is for the of poultry yards sheep and cattle feeding grounds and farmstead protection explained mr floyd this is important in utah since so many of our farming areas are without the protection of trees of any kind he said that such counties as beaver beave west box elder juab millard and tooele thoele need in more ore of this activity on the farms |