68 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



This is because the wind rises when it strikes the 

 timber, and thus leaves a quiet space, or as we 

 say, a dead air space next to the timber. It 

 is in such places as this that the frost frequently 

 does its most harmful work. While a little 

 distance from the windbreak, where the air is 

 in motion, the fruit will likely escape damage. 

 Then we have not been able to get the wood 

 growth in the first row of trees that we have 

 in the remainder of the orchard, although the 

 roots of the trees which form the windbreak 

 are down on the hillside many feet below those 

 of the apple trees and should not interfere with 

 them, but this row seems to suffer from 

 droughts much more than any others in the 

 orchard. There has been more poorly colored 

 fruit against this windbreak than in any other 

 portion of the orchard, and fungous troubles 

 have been hard to control in the lee of the 

 trees. The leaves from the windbreak are 

 blown over this ridge and lie in great drifts 

 around ,h= firs. Jo rows of trees. It has 

 proven almost a hopeless task to prevent the 

 mice from breeding among the roots of the 

 trees of the windbreak. Then during the win- 

 ter they work under the leaves to the fruit trees 

 and bark them, frequently killing trees that 

 have reached bearing age. 



