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far enough apart the other way, not exactly opposite, but set 

 them the half distance between, and they will make just as 

 effective a windbreak as can be grown. That would be my 

 method of planting a windbreak. 



Clarence Wedge: That is my method, but I plant double 

 rows. 



Dr. Frisselle: Why not plant some fruit tiees along the 

 highway instead of maple. In some countries, in Spain, for 

 instance, they plant all the roadsides with fruit trees. They 

 grow an immense quantity of them. In some countries they 

 plant nut trees along the road. Why not plant those? 



Wm. Somerville: I think the theory is good and the prac- 

 tice is good. In surrounding my orchard with a windbreak I 

 have simply planted evergreens eight feet apart, and they are 

 a solid row and now sixty- five feet high, and every tree is per- 

 fect from the ground up, and I think where they are set eight 

 feet apart in one row and well mulched, you can get as perfect 

 a break as with a double row. Mr. Harris was at my place and 

 I think he will say he never saw anything nicer, and in that 

 form I have got my orchard surrounded, and I cannot see any 

 difficulty in this circulation of air that is so much talked about, 

 and I know I have raised as many ajDples as any man in Minne- 

 sota. My enclosure is ten acres and it is cut right in the mid- 

 dle with Scotch pine, and no wind affects me on that open 

 prairie and the wind does not blow the apples off, and for that 

 reason I am decidedly in favor of protection for an orchard. 



Pres. Elliot: How far back is your windbreak from your 

 trees ? 



Wm. Somerville : I should say from fifteen to eighteen feet. 



Pres. Elliot: On our broad prairie where the wind has full 

 sweep how would it affect the trees in regard to breaking down 

 if the snow should blow in there? 



Wm. Somerville: The fact is I have never had any trouble 

 in that way. I am not afraid of the drifts. I have a good 

 many trees around my place, but I have no drifts there. I 

 think he is hardly a good citizen that has only one board be" 

 tween himself and the north pole to keep away the wintry blast, 

 and I think every person as a farmer should plant out some 

 trees to shelter his house and his stock. 



J. S. Harris: During the worst storm we had this winter I 

 was at Mr. Somerville's place and he asked me to go out to his 

 barn. I went out between two rows of evergreens. I said ' 'The 

 storm has stopped. " That walk from the house to the barn 



