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a quality basis, and tl.re coordination of research on hardrvoods by I'arious public and private agencies.

Membership is open to all n'ho are interested in participating in the advancement of the hardrvood industry and trade of this area. The association maintains an office at 3253 Commodore Way, Seattle 99.

Horl Crockett Reioins Torter, Webster qnd Johnson

Harl Crockett (left), veteran Southern California lumlter salesman, has rejoined Tarter, Webster & Jol-rnson, Inc., Los Angeles, and has been assigned a sales territorv.

Harl Crockett l.ras been identified in the lumber industrv in the sc,uthland for several veirs. He spent nrore than five years 'rvith Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc. before establishing his olr'n firm about a year ago. He is popular in Hoo-Hoo circles and active in social and cii.ic affairs in his home torvn of Arcadia. Cali{ornia. Although his specialty is redwood sales, he lvill wholesale concern. handle all species distributed by the

Worming's lumberYqrd Sold

Notices of Sale in the Los Angeles Journal, Oct. 9, Warn,ing's Lurnber Yard, 2137 E. Huntington Drive, Calif. The sale is scheduled to be made November 4 by P. and Margaret Warming to C. L. Johnson at 10 a.m., Edgewood Escrow Service, Monrovia.

Christmqs Trees for Cqsh Crop

Nlore farmers are raising Christmas trees for a cash crop than ever before, according to a survey of the Christmas tree industry conducted by the Forest Service. Farmers own about 7O/o of the 225,5N acres planted solely to Christmas trees. When the last survey u.as made tn 19'47, plantations totaled 100,0m acres, of u.hich 56/o trere orvned lty farmers.

Alrout 35/o of the naturally n'ooded or pasture lands r,r'hich supplied 87/a of the Christmas trees cut in this country last year are on'ned by farmers. llecause farmers have sl-rorved increased interest in Christmas trees, 20 states have issued bulletins during the past 10 years telling how to plant and to harvest trees as a tl-rinning process in regular tree growing. Also 12 state or regional Christmas tree associations l-rave been fornled as urcll as a national association to help with such items as rnarketing, research and grading.

This increased interest in Christmas trees is largely the result o{ a steadily rising demand for them. The survey shorvs that more than 37 million Christmas trees rn'ere used in this corlntry last year as compared to 28 million in1947. Of those used in 1955, more than 25 million were cut in the United States-for the most part in states along the Canadiarr border. The rematning 12 million came from Canada.

Still the rnost popular tiees are Douglas fir, balsam fir, eastern red cedar, biack spruce, and scotch pine, in that order. Douglas fir and balsam fir have changed places in nse since 1947,largely because the balsam fir is now less :Lccessible. Scotch pine, a plantation grown tree since it is not native, moved from 6th to 5th placi. but almost doubled irr use since 1947.

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Prices reported in the survey shotv that Christmas trees produced in 1955 r,vould amouni to a $25.5 million wholesale business, or a $47.5 million retail business. To the producer they u'ere valued at nearly $13 million at the roadside and railroad siding.