Wind-Breaks. 



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Every farmer will require a plan especialh' adapted 

 to his own place. In preparing this he should con- 

 sider the location of buildings and the whole sur- 

 roundings, with a view to getting the best possible 

 effect. Good ideas of what will best suit the cir- 

 cumstances can be obtained by securing an inex- 

 pensive book on landscape gardening. 



A wire fence should be erected around the whole Enclosing the 

 of these grounds, and evergreen trees planted inside Hedges and 

 the fence. The most suitable tree for this purpose 

 is the Norway spruce, which will answer both for a 

 wind-break and hedge, but white cedar (arbor- 

 vita:) will make the most compact hedge. Trees 

 about twenty inches high are sufficiently large for 

 planting. Nursen,' trees that have been trans- 

 planted are preferable; the cost of these is about 

 SI 0.00 per hundred. For hedge work plant about 

 eighteen inches inside of the wire fence. If you 

 use cedar, plant the trees two feet apart, and if 

 Norway spruce, three feet apart. If planting for a 

 wind-break use Norway spruce, or pine, and plant 

 from eight to ten feet apart. These will grow up 

 with little attention, and soon become both orna- 

 mental and useful. For various reasons it is not 

 advisable to plant a double row for a wind-break. 

 In a few years the inside branches die for want of air, 

 and it requires so much nourishment to support a 

 double row that no vegetation will grow near the 

 trees. The evergreen should not be planted too 

 near the fruit trees, as the latter requires a fairly 

 free passage of air to drive away moths and other 

 insects that usually collect in close places. A single 

 row of evergreens, planted not too closely, will make 

 a more healthy and graceful wind-break, and will 

 not have the objection of preventing sufficient breeze 

 from passing through the orchard. 



