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102 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
‘to read them, I would “take in” every farm paper published in the 
northwest, as an investment, knowing that I should get prompt re- 
turns in money secured through better and up-to-date methods 
of farming. 
Suggested list of fruits to fill out the foregoing plan: 
Fifty apple trees, viz.: 5 Duchess, 10 Wealthy, 10 Hibernal, 5 Long- 
field, 5 Malinda, 5 Tetofsky, 2 each of Patten’s Greening, Okabena, 
Anisim, Repka Malenka and Kaump. 
Twenty-five crab and hybrid apple trees, viz.: 5 Whitney, 5 Vir- 
ginia,5 Early Strawberry and 2each of Hyslop, Minnesota, Sweet 
Russett, Martha and Dartt. 
Twenty plums, viz.: 10 Desota and 2 each of Forest Garden, Wea- 
ver, Rollingstone, Wolf and Cheney. 
Twenty grapes, viz.: 5 each of Concord, Delaware, Worden and 
Moore’s Early. 
Fifty currants, viz.: 25 Red Dutch, 10 Victoria and 15 White Dutch. 
Forty gooseberries, viz: 20 each of Downing and Houghton. 
One hundred red raspberries, viz.: 25 each of Cuthbert, Marlboro, 
Schaffer and Turner. 
Seventy-five blackcap raspberries, viz.: 50 Gregg and 25 Ohio. 
Fifty blackberries, viz.: 40 Ancient Briton and 10 Snyder. 
One thousand strawberry plants, viz.: pistillates—200 Crescent, 
200 Warfield and 100 Haverland; staminate—200 Bederwood, 200 Capt. 
Jack and 100 Parker Earle. 
One hundred asparagus roots, viz.: 50 each of Conover’s Collossal 
and Palmetto. 
The above list can be secured of any nurseryman in the state, and 
be wise enough not to buy elsewhere. 
IMPORTANCE OF WINDBREAKS.—Next to irrigation the most im- 
portant topic for the consideration of farmers is the windbreak. 
in Oneida county, New York, there is an orchard of Red Astracans, 
one-half of which has a windbreak of arbor vite hedge and the other 
none, The protected partis in perfect conditicn; the other part is 
nearly dead, not a thoroughly sound tree init. The crops show the 
same difference. At another place there are on one side of the 
street hedges and groups of evergreens, on the north and west; on 
the other side is an open sweep for the wind. The protected land 
ripens lima beans, Isabella grapes, and is as good as a whole degree 
oflatitude warmer than the other. Our serious trouble is not from 
cold, but from cold, drying winds, and speedy changes of tempera- 
ture. 
I recommend evergreen screens everywhere; not only hedges but 
screens of trees allowed to grow tall without clipping. The arbor 
vite is generally best, hemlock in some localities. Norway spruce 
wants more room, but is valuable. The old plan of letting trees 
grow up on fence lines was right. Too much economy in clearing 
land isa mistake. The proper trees for windbreaks vary in differ- 
ent parts of the country, but this means of protection is very gen- 
erally useful.—K. P. Powell, N. Y. 
