Deflection of Winds. 



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The advantages of wind-breaks in lessening wind 

 falls, and in preventing the breaking of trees, dc 

 not appear to be sufficiently understood. In sections 

 which are influenced by large bodies of water, or 

 when the fruits grown are sufficiently hardy to endure 

 the most trying winds, these are the chief advantages 

 of shelter belts, and are ample reasons for planting 

 them. The greater facility with which labor can be 

 performed in windy weather, under the protection of 

 a wind-break, is worth consideration. 



The injuries sustained through the greater abun- 



Fig. 5. Deflection of winds by a dense shelter bel 



dance of insects immediately adjoining the wind- 

 break are easily overcome with the modern spraying 

 devices. There are many instances in which the 

 wind-break lessens the vigor of one or two adjoining 

 rows of fruit trees, but such injury appears to occur 

 only where cultivation is poor, or where the wind- 

 break has already obtained a good foot -hold when the 

 fruit is set. The writer has examined a number of 

 excellent plantations in which the rows next the 

 wind-break are as vigorous and productive as any in 

 the orchard. In fact, a number of good observers 

 declare that best fruit and greatest productiveness 



