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and spring. Undoubtedly the best tree for this purpose, as 

 well as for fencing, is the honey locust. In four or five 

 years the honey locust will, make not only a most effectual 

 wind-break, but a fence that neither man nor beast will go 

 through. It is a rapid grower, and the wood makes excel- 

 lent fence posts and firewood. 



Mr. Anson Rudd, who resides at Canon City, in the 

 Arkansas Valley, says that the storms that strike his sec- 

 tion of country generally come from the south-east and are 

 often very severe and cold ; but he has observed that the 

 sides of the trees that face these storms are always the 

 heaviest growers ; thus confirming the experience of Mr. 

 Frazier, who lives in the same valley, ten miles further from 

 the foothills than Mr. Rudd. 



G. W. Webster, of Longmont, Boulder County, says 

 his experience has taught him to do as they do in Utah 

 and California, to use no other wind-break than the apple 

 trees themselves, planting the outward row of an orchard 

 twice as close as those on the inside. No high wind-breaks, 

 he says, are needed in Colorado. 



PRUNING. 



A. N. HOAG : In pruning I sometimes rub off the col- 

 lar sprouts in summer ; while my main pruning is done in 

 December. 



J. S. PERKEY : Never forget to give your trees a thorough 

 top trimming each year. Thus a low-headed, sound-bodied, 

 and well-rooted tree is obtained. 



J. H. NEWCOMB : I prefer pruning in young trees as they 

 are growing, pinching back the ends of limbs with thumb 

 and finger, and brushing off with the hand buds as they 

 appear where they are not wanted to grow. 



D. S. GRIMES : Prune a tree in the way it should gro w 

 from the top of the future tree, while young. Little 

 branches, like little faults, leave no scars if corrected in 

 infancy, but the cutting away of large limbs to correct early 



