Show farm Shelter belt yields birr big dividends dividend ten acres of trees planted a qua quarter of a century or a so a ago to protect protea b his is farmhouse from the wo winds d have also alsa yielded a good I 1 on d crop of posts a and ed fu elwood etwood according to chris jacobson 1 aco b son farmer near culbertson C of mont I 1 further jacobson said the grove III IB still in fine shape and h he e could 11 cut 1 1000 ar posts past right right now without noticing an h the effect fic of their removal J original planting was of horway poplar and willows fast growing ing but short lived trees aside from prove protecting t I 1 the he irm I rm home he m said aid they y yielded aided 75 cords of fuel wood and ad I 1 2 I 1 posts during the 22 years f from to t the h time of planting to 0 ot theaon the removal of the last at of the nal iral trees free when he cut ut a tittle tree joe jacobson a abson con cn board he aliat planted a new one in its place the r replacements placements were a mixture of the faster growing species and a slower 1 0 w er growing longer lived species |