to Progrom

on Crop Lond to Trees

The lumber industry has asked Congress to repeal that part of the administration's Soil Rank prograrn which provides federal subsidies to farmers who convert crop lar.rd to trees.

As the House Agriculture committee began hearings on Soil Bank operations during 1956, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association filed a statement warning that the tree planting subsidies may:

1. Create an "expanding bureaucracy" and "more and more federal supervision and control" over farmers.

2. Cost taxpayers up to $1 billion.

3. Deprive non-subsidized landowners of needed planting stock.

The statemcnt, by forrner NLMA Executive Vice-President Bodine, said the tree planting payments, averaging $10 a year per acre nationwide, are "grossly unfair to those taxpayers who do not participate in such benefits, particularly the landorn'ners who convert land to tree cover at their own expense.

"Private forest landowners," Bodine explained, "have increasingly and voluntarily aclopted good practices on their lands in recent years at little or no expense to the general taxpayer.

"Today, for example, there are more than 9,000 certified Tree Farms covering more than 41 million acres in 44 states. This Tree Farm acreage is increasing at the rate of about million acres a year.

Representing

BERIHE1SEN ENGINEERING WORKS

BUSS MACHINE WORKS

CHIPCRAFT COMPANY, INC,

C K I. MACHINERY CO,

G. AA. DIEHI. MACHINE WORKS

GRINDING & POTISHING MACH. CO.

HANDY'YIANUFACTURING COMPANY

INDUSTRON CORPORATION

IRVINGTON MACHINE WORKS

MEREEN-JOHNSON MACHINE COMPANY

NEWMAN MACHINE COMPANY

B. M. ROOT COII/IPANY

OIIVER MACHINERY COMPANY

R. B. RODGERS MFG. COi/IPANY

SOIEM MACHINE COMPANY

JAMES I.. TAY1OR MFG, COT,IPANY

TRI-STATE MACHINERY CO.

TURNER MACHINERY CO.

WAIACE-UNION TOOI CO.

WYSONG & MI1ES COMPANY

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