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, Wal- 
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 
