THE WIXmtREAK ON THE PLAINS. 



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This windbreak should be eight rods wide and twenty rods, 

 or ev€n thirty, long. The way is should be planted is six feet apart 

 in the row each way. 



The farmer will lose nothing by planting trees in this way, as 

 he may utilize the land for any kind of crop which he may desire. 

 Cultivated and kept clean, in three or four years he will have trees 

 ten feet high and an ample windbreak for any farm. Now, if he 

 wants a nice garden between his house and the windbreak and 

 a border for the same, plant a couple of rows of Russian olive 



Mr. Synoground's Vegetable and Fruit Garden behind the Windbreak. 



and a row of the Russian pea tree. If he wants it to look real 

 nice, put a row of honeysuckles inside of this, and he will have 

 the finest thing that he could wish for on a farm. The farmer 

 should not neglect this for he has no true farm home unless he 

 has a few flowers surrounding his home. 



The Russian olive tree has a beautiful yellow flower that blos- 

 soms in June and stays in full bloom for three or four weeks, while 

 the honeysuckle is the first shrub of them all to blossom in the 

 spring. Each of these can be obtained at a very reasonable price 

 of any of the nurserymen of South Dakota or Minnesota. 



