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The advantages of wind-breaks in lessening wind- 
falls, and in preventing the breaking of trees, do 
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- 
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Fig. 5. Deflection of winds by a dense shelter belt. 
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 
