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Show Wood As Fuel "The use of wood for fuel is being be-ing realized more this year than it haa been for some time," says Professor Pro-fessor Paul M. Dunn, extension forester of the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college, "and a large number of Utah families are benefitting bene-fitting by this practice." According to figures recently compiled by forest officials at Og-den, Og-den, over 250,000 cords of dry wood have been taken from national na-tional forest land in Utah for uss as fuel this current year. With an average of ten cords per family, this means that 25,000 Utah families fam-ilies are being supplied in this manner. This has been a direct saving to many people who, because be-cause of unemployment have been able to take advantage of this means of providing fuel for the home, and who also might have been unable to pay for other fuel. The privilege of obtaining wood for fuel on certain areas has been given free for individual use by the Forest Service; but, according to the officers in charge, there are many areas where there is no dry wood left within a reasonable reach of a road. This indicates that heavy use is depleting the supply in areas that can be readily read-ily reached. Tf wood is good fuel, and it is economy to drive from ten to sixty six-ty miles for a load of wood, the question is asked by Mr. Dunn, "why might it not be good economy econ-omy to plant a small area of the farm to a woodlot and grow wood for fuel and other uses right at home?'" Most every Utah farm has ground available that would grow a crop of trees, that in five to ten years would be supplying the farm home. There are 50,000 forest tree seedlings growing in the forestiy department nursery at the college in Logan that will be available for planting on Utah farms next spring. These young trees are of 13 varieties and. Include Siberian elm, Russian olive, ash, black and honey locust, golden willow, and black walnut, which are all potential po-tential wood trees. Information regarding the planting of trees may be obtained through the extension ex-tension service. |