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Show News In Brief Greater numbers of Utah college men are entering forestry training couses now than ever before enrollment enroll-ment figures at the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college's school of forestry for-estry show. The Utah state college is one of about twenty-five In the country which give training in forestry for-estry studies at present. More than 430 students enrolled at the college in forestry courses during the 1936-37 1936-37 school year, the registrar's Agues Ag-ues show. At least 6,000 students were registered in the departments cf forestry of other American colleges col-leges latest figures reveal, and 500 degrees were given last year to stu-dents stu-dents who had completed the four-year four-year course. Executive committeemen of the Utah Crop Improvement Association, Associa-tion, a group which has been influential influ-ential in organizing of farmers In a weed control prcgrami, met with the state agricultural correlation committee in the state capital building early this month to outline out-line its program and budget for the coming year, according to Dr. R. J. Evans, head of the Utah State Agricultural college department of agronomy. The crop improvement association's 1938 program, designed to dovetail with the state's weed control program for the coming year, will be designed especially to ob ain the cooperation of individual famers in the state plans, Dr. Evans Ev-ans said. More than 1,000 tons of silage produced from grass and from, grass clove mixtures by the use of from 40 to 75 pounds of molasses per ton cf silage were made Inst year at New Jersey experiment station. The practice has aLso spread to other states, a department of agriculture agri-culture report states. A British j chemist reports that this practice retains food value of the crop. |