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Show Y ' , .-- ; 4- Forestry Champions Know Woodlot Potentialities ;-r- - - - " " ' ' ; if? I ffi I 1 MaJUiJW-iii 0e o e 4-H C6 forestry champions and a local club advisor examine young pines that started him out on a forestry U career. Four-H forestry lessons will later pay dividends m regular f) cash crops harvested on toell-managed farm woodlots. v1 As an incentive to local farm boys and girls to turn their woodlotj 115 and small timber tracts into money-making properties, four college scholarships of $30fLsach are being offered again this year in the 4-H ) - Club forestry project. All 4-H Club members, working under Exten- .inn Service supervision and enrolled during the current year in a 4-H . kh Club forestry project, are eligible to1! i compete for national awards. As in previous years, top awards will be made on a sectional basis to the boy or girl having the best forestry record in each of the four Extension J I, Service sections of the Nation. In ad- : dition to the scholarships, national win- ners will be given all-expense-paid trips to the 29th National 4-H Club Con-gress Con-gress to be held in Chicago, November 26-30 inclusive. Medals will be awarded f , to each state winner. " This is the third consecutive year tc, American Forest Products Industries, I a national non-profit association of K J wood-dependent industries, has spon-" spon-" 1 sored the 4-H Club forestry project. In the past two years' competition, .eight of the college scholarships and free trips have been won by farm youths from the states of Arkansas, I Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New York l and Wisconsin, the latter two states having had national winners both years. "It is most gratifying to see the up- t surge of interest in forestry that is being shown by 4-H Club members everywhere," declared Charles A. Gil-lett, Gil-lett, managing director of American Forest Products Industries, in announcing announc-ing the association's continuing sponsorship spon-sorship of the scholarship awards for 19 50. "These young people are learning learn-ing the basic fundamentals of sound timber management and how to apply them to the farm woodlots of America. Amer-ica. Certainly this assures an even greater progress in private forest management man-agement in the next half century and an ever increasing wood supply for this Nation and the world." The local county extension agent will supply detailed information about the 4-H forestry project and the 19 50 awards awaiting those boys and girls who excel in forestry. |