shelter-belt

Mr. Maher: The evergreen is the best windbreak for the reason that it gives more shelter, retains its leaves in the winter and fewer rows of trees will make a good shelter-belt.

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Mr. Maher: That is a very good plan, to have a row of willows back of your shelter-belt, especially around the home and orchard and barn ground, to hold the snow back.

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For a windbreak around the garden orchard, that should have an inside protection, and the shelter-belt itself should be too far away from the garden to be sufficient protection.

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Iowa -- I can't call his name just now -- and he came to practically the same conclusion as to the distance that the protection reached in proportion to the height of shelter-belt.

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Austrian pine, and if it continues to do as well as it has the last three or four years I think the Austrian pine is going to be a very valuable pine for shelter-belt.

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So every farm should be protected from them by a substantial shelter-belt on the west and south sides, which can also be the farm wood-lot.

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Extensive experiments have also been started with fruit trees, shelter-belt trees, ornamental shrubs and perennial flowering plants to determine the factors that influence the hardiness of plants.

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I have a question here: How long should a shelter-belt be cultivated?

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Mr. McGee, at Indian Head, gave a great deal of thought and study to the windbreak proposition and measured the distances that the shelter-belt would shelter the crops, and he came to the conclusion that for every foot in height there would be an absolute protection for a rod in distance, and outside of that actual protection there would be a long distance that would be partially protected.

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A shelter-belt for the home grounds is often placed at the extreme edge of the home yard, toward the heaviest or prevailing wind.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906