SUGGESTIONS TO SETTLERS IN COLUMBIA RIVER VALLEY. 



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The artemisia is a shrubby plant that is started from 7-inch cuttings 

 set 12 to 15 inches apart. It shoukl attain a heiglit of 4 or 5 feet the 

 first 3^ear and 8 or 9 feet the second year. Low wind-breaks can be 

 made by phmting the artemisia alone. A good hedge of this plant 

 is growing on the exi)eriment farm of the State College at Pullman, 

 Wash., from which cuttings may be obtained. 



Fig. 2.— Asparagus beds on sandy soil near Kennewick, Wasli., protected by sagebrush wind-breaks. 

 When the land was cleared low posts were set, upon the tops of which a large smooth wire was stretched. 

 Instead of burning the sagebrush, It was hung on the wire to serve as a temporary wind-break. 



The European larch instead of the black locust may be used with 

 the artemisia. It will not spread and encroach upon the protected 

 area as much as the locust or the poplars. Its timber also makes good 

 fence posts. 



Figure 2 illustrates how temporary wind-breaks may be made 

 from sagebrush. 



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