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ROBSON BLACK. Editor 



Canadian forestry Journal 



VOL. XVI. 



OTTAWA. CANADA. APRIL, 1920. 



No. 4 



Tree Fences to Block Snow and Sand 



by S. M. Winegar, Montreal 



How the Railways are Coming to 



Use More Plantations in Place 



of Unsightly Boards 



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A plantation of Carolina Poplar set out in 1916 to prevent the drifting of sand near railway 

 tracks. These cuttings were about half an inch in diameter and 12 inches long. They cost about 

 two cents apiece. Picture was taken one year after plantjng. 



Raihvays use two kinds i»f fcMioos tonatice, however, is \ erv h\s:h. and 



for snow, a portable (uif wliieh ean the expense neees>ary in moving 



lie shifted any di-tanee from track eonsiderahle. The tfiniiorary fence. 



and a ]iernianenl one whieli is estah^ however, is nnsii.jhtly. 'Tree fences 



lished (in the ri|:;hl-( if-way linr. The reeninniend themselves on aeeomit ot 



former fence is taken down in the lluir orii^inal cost, the small mainten- 



S])rini;- and jiiled np until fall. The ance expense in\ol\ed after ]-)lanta- 



advantaj^c of this t\'i)e nf fence is (^h- tioiis ha\e been est.ddisheil sc\er;il 



vious, beino- built in u-i | and i6 ft. years, and because of their ap]H\ar- 



p.inels, it is easilv handled. The main ance. Their disadxanta^e is their lia- 



