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The new Tree Farm*, totaling 5,750 acres, brought the state’s total Tree Farms to 174, embracing 6%,939 acres of well-managed forest land. The five landowners, with Tree Farm locations and acre*ges ' are H. Ashby Harris of Route 1, Charlottesville, 380 acres in Albemarle County i Jeffreys-Spalding Manufacturing Co. of Chase City, 1,500 acres in Mecklenburg County; Dr. W. Horsley Gantt of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 440 Kcrer bi’Nelson County; Mrs. W. -R.' Gregg of Orange, 3,180 acres in Orange County; and Mrs. Keith Wiley of Earlysville, 250 acres in Albemarle County. :>:> 'Kt. j. - The program in Virginia is;$ponsored jointly by the Virginia Committee of American Forest Products Industries and Virginia Forests, Inc, in cooperation with the Virginia Division of Forestry, the VPI Extension Service ! and the Soil Conservation Service.
A Tree Farm is a privately owned, tax-paying forest dedicated to the continuing growth I of forest crops for commercial purposes.
WHEAT PRKffe SUPPORT SET AT $2.00 PER BU.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has raised the minimom national average support j price for the 1950-crop wheat to $2.00 per bushel. ’ L
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