CHAPTER X. 
SCREENS FOR SHELTER, 
When timber belts are planted on the outskirts of 
the farm, it may often happen that they will be too 
remote from the farm buildings to afford the needed 
protection. In such cases, it will be desirable to 
plant screens consisting of one or more rows of trees. 
These should be evergreens, as deciduous trees in a 
belt so narrow would afford but little shelter at the 
season when it is most needed. A single row of 
evergreens, when well grown, is a very good protection 
against the winter wind. A double row is still better. 
Two rows of Norway Spruce, planted eight or ten 
feet apart, and ten feet distant in the rows, each tree 
being opposite the space in the other row, constitute 
as complete a shelter from the wind as a building of 
the same height. The evergreens most suitable for 
screens are, the Norway Spruce, the White Pine, the 
Red Pine, Scotch Pine and Austrian Pine. The 
American Arbor Vite, Hemlock, White and Black 
Spruce, are also well suited for this purpose, but do 
not grow so rapidly as those first mentioned. Orchards 
