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children could be instructed in tree planting they would be more 

 willing to do it. A great many people are willing to plant trees, 

 but they do not know how. I once thought I would set out trees, 

 and so I had a little hole dug in the sand and put in a little bit of 

 good earth around the tree and expected the tree to grow, but I 

 found after a while that if anything was expected to go through our 

 dry Minnesota summers you must give it plenty of good, rich earth. 

 When you have planted and loved the tree for the love you bear your 

 boy or girl, you will not find it hard to plant for each child a tree, 

 and as the children grow up to love the trees they will not find it 

 hard to plant more trees, and when they grow to manhood and 

 womanhood they will realize that what they did was not done for 

 themselves only but for the benefit of humanity, that they have done 

 something to make the world more beautiful and better, and the 

 child that does that will be a better citizen, a more loyal patriot and 

 a more unselfish man or woman because of this lesson he has re- 

 ceived. I want to urge you to take care of the trees, to plant trees, 

 to make our state of Minnesota beautiful in all respects. (Applause.) 



GROWING TREES IN AND FOR THE WINDBREAK. 



AI<FRED TERRY, SI^AYTON. 



I would most emphatically advise the plants for a windbreak 

 to be bought from one of the large forest tree nurserymen, who are 

 able to raise and deliver to any part of Minnesota forest trees rang- 

 ing from twelve to twenty-four inches high, at a cost of about one- 

 fourth the expense it would take to grow the same trees yourself. 



To make a perfect windbreak the first thing necessary is that 

 the planter should think sufficiently of the great need of a grove that 

 will actually break the zvind, so that he will be encouraged to deviate 

 from the usual course now practiced of planting only one kind of 

 tree in the grove. I visited a farm a few days ago with a large 

 grove consisting wholly of cottonwoods and, with their slim trunks, 

 ight colored bark and few low down branches, it looked about the 

 bleakest thing in the way of a windbreak that I had ever seen. 

 While I should plant in the middle of the grove such branchy trees 

 as the soft maple, box elder, elm, hackberry, etc., I prefer for the 

 two or three outside rows to plant such as European larcli or Scotch 

 pine, with an outside border of shrubs, such as lilac, syringa or the 

 like. In this way we make our artificial groves more like the natural 

 ones, and the lilac and syringa holding their leaves until very late 

 in the year, and being about the first in the spring to open their buds, 

 will give the whole grove a handsome appearance, as well as better 

 break the wind. I know that many may be afraid of the expense 

 of these flowering shrubs, but if they were to order of their nursery- 

 men small flowering shrubs by the hundred, instead of by ones and 



