84 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



occur next the wind-break. When the wind-break 

 has been long established, however, it is difficult to 

 make trees live alongside of it. The better plan is to 

 plant the break with or only shortly before the 

 orchard is planted. 



The following from T. G. Yeomans & Sons, Wai- 

 worth, Wayne County, New York, who have had ex- 

 tensive and pronounced experiences with wind-breaks, 

 'is a judicious statement of the advantages to be de- 

 rived from shelter belts-. "We have been extensively 

 engaged in fruit -culture for over forty years, and now 

 have in bearing about one hundred and thirty acres 

 of apple orchard, ten acres of dwarf pears, ten of 

 orange quince, and small fruits. For many years we 

 have experimented with wind-breaks, and now have 

 many artificial shelter belts of various kinds and 

 ages, the oldest having been planted nearly thirty- 

 years. We consider wind-breaks to be of the great- 

 est value to fruit culture, and we are confident that 

 most fruit-growers do not realize their importance. 

 They protect the trees and plants at all seasons, and 

 prevent windfalls to a great extent. Orchards thus 

 protected in this region are more productive, more 

 uniform, and longer lived than others. They render 

 labor among the trees and plants much easier on 

 windy days, and enable men to work in very windy 

 weather, when otherwise it would be impossible. We 

 have always succeeded in raising good fruit close 

 to the wind-break. * * * We consider land 

 devoted to shelter belts as very profitable invest- 

 ment, even to ordinary farm crops. We should not 



