with additional points of advantage. A list of the more im- 

 portant follows: 



1. Personal comfort protection from storms. 



2. Winter protection of stock in barn yards. 



3. Shade for stock in 'Summer. 



4. Orchard windbreaks. 



5. Purifications of water supply. 



6. Protection of field crops from drying winds. 



7. Wood products value. 



8. Aesthetic value. 



9. Attraction of insect eating birds. 



10. Protection from noxious weeds. 



11. Profitable utilization of spots of poor soil. 



12. Sale value of the farm. 



There are hundreds of school houses on the prairies which 

 stand bleak and unprotected from the sweeping winds. This 

 condition demands a remedy. A portion of the money which 

 is being devoted to other phases of rural education could well 

 be directed to the immediate building up of groves about ex- 

 posed school houses. 



Many Wood Lots in Sad Condition. 



fri the formerly timbered portions of the state there re- 

 main, after clearing, hundreds of thousands of acres of up- 

 land wood lots, kept for their value to the farm. A great 

 many of these are in a sad condition. People have allowed 

 them to become so largely through ignorance. In many cases, 

 if the farmer knew what great eventual damage would be 

 caused by the careless handling or misuse of his wood lot, 

 he would be only too anxious to adopt a better system. By 

 the receipt of greater attention, and in many cases by re- 

 planting, the generally deplorable condition of the state's nat- 

 ural wood lots could be much improved and their value much 

 increased. 



Even at this late date there are thousands of farm build- 

 ings in the West and South which are almost or entirely un- 

 protected by wind-breaks. The principal fuel is coal. In 

 times of coal or car shortage the suffering is often intense. 



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