TREE-PLANTING ON PRAIRIES. 



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may often be desirable to change the shape of the land 

 enclosed, but in the great majority of prairie farms a plan 

 similar to this would work out to good advantage and the 

 area enclosed by windbreaks could often be increased to 

 ten acres to good advantage. 



A rule that should be carefully followed in all tree plant- 

 ings is that the view from the most commonly used rooms 



- 37 rods 



Highway 



FIG. 7. Suggestion in detail for laying out the grounds about the 

 buildings on a prairie farm. Highway on south, size 30X37 rods, 

 enclosing five acres; windbreak on north and west five rods wide. 

 Two rows of trees next to highway. Rows of trees indicated. 



of anything that is suggestive of pleasant associations or 

 that is especially interesting or entertaining should not be 

 cut off. Under this head would be included the view from 

 the living-room windows, of the travelled wagon-road or 

 perhaps of the railroad, of the neighboring houses or per- 

 haps a near-by lake, and of the important fields on the farm, 



