SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 



THREE SUGGESTIONS FOR FARMS 



Where chickens can not be allowed to run at 

 large, their yards should be shaded It is a well- 

 known fact that eggs produced in quarters which 

 become overheated do not show a high percentage 

 of fertility. We often hear cautions against too 

 much confinement for breeding hens, but the real 

 trouble lies not so much in lack of room as in over- 

 heating. A dozen shade trees will remedy this 

 condition. The thickest-growing kinds should be 

 planted, as the chickens like cool, dark retreats. 

 Do not depend on low, thin-foliaged trees that 

 let wavering blotches of sunlight through. Such 

 shade is not cool. 



In pastures it is well to plant shade trees if there 

 are none growing. Cattle or horses will not eat all 

 the time. They like to lie down in cool places 

 after they have grazed a while. If they have this 

 chance, they make good use of the grass they 

 consume, and produce more pounds of meat or of 

 milk. The darker the shade is for them, the better, 

 for it helps them to get away from flies, and they 

 seem to like it better. 



The third suggestion is for a farm timber-belt. 

 Ordinarily this is called a wood-lot, but that is a 



One of those cool, protected places that we all like. Nine Sugar and 

 Norway Maples, 8 feet high, and two Spruces 5 feet high. If you had this 

 place, would you take $8 for the trees? They cost a little less. In one case 

 $1,300 was added to the sale price of a Pennsylvania home in four years 

 by $8 worth of trees. 



