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Show Trees Offered To Farmers At Three Bucks A Hundred More than 200,000 trees for Utah farm planting during the spring of 1948 are available at the Clark-McNary Tree Nursery at Utah State Agricultural College, Col-lege, Raymond S. Moore, Utah State Extension forester, reported re-ported this week. Trees will be distributed to farmers throughout the state for farmstead windbreaks, field shelterbelts, vvoodlot and erosion eros-ion control plantings. mey are maae avanaDie to Utah farmers for these purposes by provisions of the 1924 Clark-McNary Clark-McNary Law, which provides for federal cooperation in the production pro-duction and distribution of small tree planting stock. These trees may be "purchased at $1.50 to $3.00 per hundred which includes cost of shipping. Twelve species are available for planting during the present year. There are four species of evergreens that have been successfully suc-cessfully grown in Utah and eight species of hardwoods. The evergreens are: blue spruce, ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, and Rocky Mountain juniper. The hardwoods are: green ash, Siberian elm, Russian Rus-sian olive, black locust, honey locust, golden willow, black walnut and Lombardy poplar. Distribution began this week, Mr. Moore reported. Trees may be ordered by farmers on printed order forms which will be sent out upon request to the Extension Forester, USAC or to offices of the county extension agents in the various counties. humans that can be made at home by hand methods. There will be many prizes and an auction auc-tion of these products, returns to go to entrants of articles. Here is a chance to be part of it and make this a "World Championship" Champion-ship" along with the other events. This event is to promote the wool industry of Colorado and the western states and Craig, being the largest "wool shipping point", takes this means to celebrate cele-brate another tremendous wool harvest. - Farh rnmmunitw ic invitFd tn enter its most gracious and beautiful girl to contest for wool queen of the festival. |