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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. 
