HORTICULTURE ON NEW PRAIRIE FARMS. 



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access from highway to house, barn and fields beyond are all provided. 

 Ample space for a garden is given and a medium sized lawn is made. Some 

 fruit trees can be planted inside the windbreak, and there is room to the 

 north or to the west of the grove on each plan for trees "planted where 

 nature plants them." A good front is provided on the road in each of 

 these sketches. Where a grove must be placed between the house and 

 the road, the trees should be so chosen and planted that the view of pass- 

 ers-by is *not entirely cut off, but good wind protection secured. With 

 some such plan as this, modified-, of course to suit the lay of the land, 

 the future details can be worked in as time and means allow. 



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Tree planting should by no means be confined to the L-shaped shelter 

 belt. Clumps of trees inside the enclosure, or even well placed rows to 

 further break up the wind or to serve as "close by" shelter for the house or 

 other building, should also be early planted, and belts to the east and 

 south often pay. 



Ornamental trees and shrubbery can hardly be regarded too highly. 

 The main shelter-belt should be five to ten rods wide, and is easiest 

 planted and cultivated if placed in rows. Where practicable the first 

 land broken should be for a shelter-belt. It is necessary on new lands 

 to grow one or more crops before planting trees; for this purpose millet is 

 even better than small grains, as it can be planted late in the spring and 

 harvested early, thus allowing the grass to be plowed under late in spring 

 and early in fall, the millet in the meantime smothering all the vegeta- 

 tion by its rank growth. 



