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Show IMPORTANCE OF ORCHARD WINDBREAKS (By L. ARNY, New York Experiment Station.) The important point is to place the tree in such a place that it will have the advantage of high altitude, which means good air drainage, but at the same time that it will not be exposed lo high winds, which means quick evaporation. The best means of accomplishing ac-complishing this is to provide the orchard or-chard with a windbreak. Windbreaks should contain both ct.re and judgment, since they often become a hindrance instead of a help In places where they are wrongly planted. The one great drawback to them is the fact that unless watched To this end, the evergreens will check the wind during the winter and the deciduous ones will help during the summer. Aside from this point, the break made from the mixed types of trees will be more efficient than the one composed of all evergreens, although al-though the latter will check the winds both during winter and summer. Spruce Is Quick Grower. The spruces are probably the most common evergreen trees that are used for this purpose, because they arq comparatively quick growers and make a good growth on a wide range of soils. Among the deciduous trees the HEATERS WHICH SAVED CROP OF PEARS. very closely, they may become a i breeding place for dangerous insects; but if care is exercised in this direction, direc-tion, the good effects of them will I overbalance this point. That is, if the orchard is regularly and intelligently sprayed, the insect problem is not an economically serious one. Object of Windbreak. Windbreaks should be planted with evergreen and deciduous trees. The object is not to stop the wind, since that would be almost as harmful as having too much, but it is simply to check It so that the force will be broken bro-ken by the time it reaches the trees. maples and the birches lead, and bouj do well under varying conditions. Tha ! trees are planted closer at first than they are wanted, so that an immediate imme-diate effect can be gotten, and as sooa as they begin to grow or to make the. ; break too dense, enough are taken out j so that the break will not be a bur- ! rier. When properly placed, the windbreak wind-break can be one of the greatest assets as-sets the fruitgrower can have. This fact is just being realized, and has been brought to light by the large amount of Injury incident to expot id and unprotected orchard sites. |