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DISCUSSION. 



(COXTINUED FKOM PAGE 103, APRIL NO.) 



' WINDBREAKS. 



Mr. B. Taylor: Now a word in regard to windbreaks. About 

 thirt5^-six years ago I joined the church in regard to fruit and went to 

 worshipping it. I selected a spot on the place where I lived at the time; 

 I could see that in the spring the snow would remain there, and that 

 it was surrounded with natural windbreaks. It was so well protected 

 that I went to planting, and when my friend Jewell visited me he ■u'as 

 as much pleased with the situation as I was, and he said that for either 

 a nursery or orchard it was a perfect spot. I planted a great many 

 trees and raised more or less fruit, but in that orchard, surrounded 

 by a perfect windbreak, we do not now find anj' trees. We are still 

 planting trees, but we plant them on a bluff 300 feet above the river, and 

 we make no provision for a windbreak. Now, Brother Pearce, in re- 

 gard to your idea that apple trees and other fruits acquire increased 

 ability to hang on if exposed to the wind, that is law and gospel. 

 Like ourselves, if we never moved we would cease to have power to 

 live. We have our fruit right up where it is not quite as much ex- 

 posed as on the prairie, but we have made no provision for protec- 

 tion against the wind. We plant rather close together. N^y orchard 

 was formerlj^ a nursery; just leaving certain trees standing when 

 digging trees, leaving them standing sixteen to eighteen feet apart. 

 Now, I have great faith in letting them grow in the nursery with- 

 out transplanting, if it were possible. I think there is a good point 

 in that; I believe a tree can be raised best right where it is to set. 

 Mr. Underwood might not like my idea as a business idea. 



DISTANCE APART. 



Mr. Dartt: Did those trees ever crowd so you thought you were 

 damaged by having them stand close together? 



Mr. Taylor: The}^ stood close together on one side of my house 

 only, but the cyclone thinned that orchard. Six to seven hundred 

 trees were entirely destroj^ed in as little as thirty seconds. 



Prof. Green: Let us hear from Mr. Lyman. 



Mr. H. M. Lyman: I have not had much experience in setting out an 

 orchard. The first orchard was sixteen feet apart each way as they 

 grew, but it was rather too close for some varieties; there are other 

 varieties that spread out and require more room. I never had any 

 experience w^ith windbreaks. 



A Voice: What variety of apples have you? 



