Show tree growing on retired 3 A land terms provide farmers fame rs may plant for windbreaks Windbreak si woodlot forest by IB IE L sawyer Exten extension ilon forester university of illinois service growing trees on land contracted to the government through the AAA wheat and corn hog adjustment programs will prove more advantageous to farmers in many sections than crops planted on the same ground on a large majority of farms where corn hog and wheat contracts are signed the less productive land will be removed from cultivation under the terms of the contract such land may be planted to trees for woodlot wind windbreak breah or forest purposes this Is a decided advantage to some farmers it gives them an opportunity to establish the long needed protection without reducing the area of the farm that Is available for cultivation in many cases this less productive land will grow trees to better advantage than it will grow farm crops even under more normal conditions in thil future such tree plantings will yield valuable timber crops or they will aid in the control of erosion or both christmas trees ornamentals ornament als and nursery stock are not permitted under the contract but if wet bottom land Is removed from cultivation trees which will mature in 12 to 1 years can be planted where taxes and carrying charges are not too high these trees will often return a larger jarger income at the end of the rotation than the landowner would have received from average crops of corn and wheat on the same areas thus farmers may obtain reasonable returns in this manner from the contracted acres in addition to the government benefit pay ments |