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was so warm, free from snow and entirely free from wind that 

 I suggested the storm had stopped. When I got back to the 

 house I found it was not so. Every farmer should have a shel- 

 ter of this kind, and two rows of evergreens set like Mr. Som- 

 erville's will soon afford that shelter. 



C. H. Gordon: I presume no one knows better the advant- 

 ages of having windbreaks than we old settlers of the back- 

 woods, when it was all a large forest and we did not sup- 

 pose we ever would have big drifts and bad roads. But that 

 time has come. 



In regard to these windbreaks. It is a very nice thing, in- 

 deed, to have plenty of windbreaks around our house and barn 

 and all our walks, but those tall sixty-five feet windbreaks 

 around our orchards I cannot understand how they work well- 

 My orchard is not sheltered with timber except on the south 

 and east, and where the trees come up to the edge of the timber 

 they are not bearing worth a cent, but back a little farther 

 they are much better. I have fully made up my mind to cut off 

 that timber for four rods for the benefit of the trees. Protec- 

 tion is one thing and high windbreaks another. 



Prof. Waldron: I was just going to say that engineers in 

 making breakwaters, instead of putting in a solid wall, put in 

 rows of piles four to six feet apart, and where they make a solid 

 breakwater the waves go right over it, and it occurred to me 

 that that same theory might apply to windbreaks. 



Pres. Elliott: That is the correct theory 



FRUITS IN NORTH DAKOTA. 



BY PROF. C. B. "WALDRON, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, FARGO, N D. 



If North Dakota were to be known by her fruits alone (using the term 

 in a strictly pomological sense) she might not excite the admiration that 

 she now does, and yet she would not be wholly without honor. 



Her native fruits that have promise of considerable value are six or 

 eight in number, while the entire number will exceed a dozen. 



As in most localities, the rose family heads the list, with one plum of 

 two or three marked varieties, one strawberry, two raspberries, one June- 

 berry, two thorn apples, three cherries and several roses. Aside from 

 these, the other orders give us the gooseberry, currant, buffalo berry, high 

 bush cranberry, grape and the acorn and hazelnut. 



The hazelnut found in North Dakota is the Corylus Americana, though 

 probably the Corylus rostrata is also a native. 



The Quercus bicolor and the Quercus macrocarpa — variety dejiressa mania 



