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natural forests, and it is in such places that injury 

 is reported by correspondents. The writer has found 

 no indisputable evidence to show that such injury 

 ever accompanies artificial wind-breaks; places where 

 such injury was reported have been visited, but the 

 loss of trees and fruit was plainly due to age of 

 trees or other obvious reasons. Still, it is probable 

 that a hedge -like wind-break may sometimes be the 

 cause of mischief; and such should never be made 

 in any locality until the problems of local atmos- 

 pheric drainage have been well considered. 



The coarser evergreens, planted close together, 

 are therefore advisable for interior places, while 

 deciduous trees, or evergreens somewhat scattered, 

 are often better for the lake regions. In these 

 latter cases, however, the lay of the land is im- 

 portant, for if atmospheric drainage is good there 

 is less danger of injury from tight belts. Lower 

 levels, upon which cold air settles, are therefore 

 more in need of open belts than higher lands. 

 For interior places, a strip of natural forest is the 

 ideal wind-break. In artificial belts, the kind 

 recommended by Messrs. Yeomans, and illustrated in 

 Fig. 6, is undoubtedly one of the best. The illus- 

 tration shows two rows of maples backing up a 

 row of Norway spruce. "The maples then receive 

 and break the force of the wind, and prevent the 

 spruces from becoming ragged. We never shear 

 the spruces." A Lombardy poplar wind-break 

 alongside a peach orchard is shown in Fig. 7, on the 

 following page. 



