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Show GOOD WINDBREAK PAYS WELL Reduces Loss of Moisture by Evaporation Evapora-tion and Adds Greatly to Comfort Com-fort of the Owner. (By W. J. MORRILL, Colorado Agricultural Agricul-tural College. Fort Collins. Colo.) Windbreaks are usually more or less ornamental on a farm, and add to the contentment of the owner. But it is not generally known that windbreaks wind-breaks 'actually pay dividends. At least, studies made a few years ago in Nebraska and Kansas indicate that windbreaks are profitable. The state forester will soon study their influence influ-ence in this state. It must be admitted that windbreaks occupy space that could be profitably devoted to agricultural crops, and that the roots of the trees and their shade render a strip of ground on either side of the windbreak relatively relative-ly unproductive. Yet in spite of these drawbacks, efficient windbreaks undoubtedly un-doubtedly do more good than evil. The windbreak reduces the velocity of the wind, and, therefore, the loss of soil water from evaporation from the soil surface and from the field crops. This is equivalent to additional addition-al rainfall, Just as "a dollar saved is a dollar made." It seems from investigations inves-tigations made by the United States forest service that the greater yields of field crops and apples behind the protection of a good windbreak are enough to warrant every farmer in the prairie states in planting windbreaks. |