People are only just beginning to understand the value of evergreens in their home gardens, both as windbreaks and backgrounds.
As would be expected by any one who is acquainted with Minnesota, the planted windbreaks are a more important factor in the prairie country than in the natural wooded and hilly regions.
At least studies made a few years ago in Nebraska and Kansas indicate that windbreaksare profitable.
But it is not generally known that windbreaks actually pay dividends.
Cultivation and intercropping of windbreaks are also recommended in a few cases.
Windbreaks are a very important factor in successful orcharding in Minnesota, even though one party in the southeast section and three parties in the central east noted no beneficial effects.
Windbreaks are usually more or less ornamental on a farm, and add to the contentment of the owner.
If I was going to set out another orchard I would put windbreaks all around it, north, south, east and west, and the windbreak that I would use would be the yellow willow.
Under this heading comes windbreaks of all kinds, whether hills, natural timber or planted trees, and bodies of water which ameliorate the climate.
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 unproductive.
Yet in spite of these drawbacks, efficient windbreaks undoubtedly do more good than evil.
Quite a number of the early planters of apples in Illinois also put windbreaks around their orchards with considerable detriment to their orchards.
I was certainly very much surprised at some of these windbreaks and at some of the varieties of evergreens that were being grown successfully as far north as Fargo.
The kinds of trees recommended for windbreaks and the methods of planting are numerous and variable and to discuss them at length would take too much time.
Windbreaks as often favor the frost as the vine, and smudging or heating the vineyards is too expensive to be practical.
Windbreaks are sometimes planted with the idea of preventing the drifting of snow but the snow will collect and form great drifts on the leeward side of a windbreak and the shade from the windbreak may prevent the snow from melting so rapidly.
It is doubtful if the planting of windbreaks along the highways is advisable.
Windbreaks also help the garden grow in winter by increasing temperature.
Windbreaks Plants transpire more moisture when the sun shines, when temperatures are high, and when the wind blows; it is just like drying laundry.
The nut trees demand too much room for most home-ground fruit plantations, although they are also useful for windbreaksand shade.
It may be used to some advantage in windbreaks for peach orchards and other short-lived plantations; but after a few years a screen of Lombardies begins to fail, and the habit of suckering from the root adds to its undesirable features.
Value for planting: Suitable for windbreaks and woodland planting.
Value for planting: Aside from its value as an ornamental tree, the white pine is an excellent tree to plant on abandoned farms and for woodlands and windbreaks throughout the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, and the Lake States.
The loss of all the topsoil and the scooping of the upper courses of the foundations into banks to serve as windbreaks had done such damage that it was essential that something be done before the new growth took hold.
It was presumed that they stemmed from the vicinity of the residence and were spread about by the bulldozing before the windbreaks were pushed up.
Within three hundred yards of the beach it is truly a seaside garden, but the great Privet hedges, fourteen feet high, make perfect windbreaks for the protection of its bloom.
Windbreaks of hedges or walls are used where the winds blow strong off the water.
Some species, because of the form of their crowns and their rapid growth, are more effective for windbreaks than others.
Orchards need windbreaks to save them from injury in a wind-swept country, and gardens are more successful when surrounded by trees.
Windbreaks were very numerous some little distance back from the enclosure, which showed that we had practically stumbled upon a native village.
Windbreaks are essential; I would make them of three rows of box-elder or Osage orange.
Windbreaks are injurious unless planted at least 200 feet from the orchard.
Windbreaks are essential; I would make them of maple or box-elders, planted around the orchard.
Windbreaks are not essential here, but some have forest-trees planted on the north side of their orchards.
Believe in windbreaks made of locust or anything that will grow, planted in deep subsoiled furrows on south and west of orchard.
Thinks windbreaks essential; would make them of Osage orange all around the orchard.
Windbreaks are not necessary here; they make their own windbreak if kept thoroughly cultivated and full of life.
I think windbreaks are essential on the south, and would make them of Osage orange or mulberry, planted in double rows, a few feet apart.
I think windbreaks are essential, and would make them of native timber, planted south of the orchard.
Windbreaks are essential; would make them of peach trees planted close together.
Windbreaks are essential; would make them of Osage orange, by setting the plants twelve inches apart.
I believe windbreaks essential in this county, and would make them of Russian mulberry, cottonwood, and locust.
I think windbreaks are essential, and would make them of rapid-growing forest-trees.
Windbreaks are essential on the southwest or north and south; would make them of Osage orange; plant them forty feet distant and do not trim.
On account of its rapid growth it has also been much used for windbreaks but this practice should be discouraged and better species used.
In Indiana it is a species well worth a trial for forestry purposes, especially in windbreaks where other species are used.
Four men took up places behind the row ofwindbreaks beyond the first row of cabins.
He stared across at the heavy windbreaks between the fields--long, ragged structures built in hope of outwitting the vicious winds that howled across the land during the long winter.
But groves had rooted, low windbreaks cut the country at frequent intervals; many acres of sod had been turned by the plow, and many more were being shut in by fences where the open cattle range was preempted by freeholds.
I want to smell the alfalfa and see the prairie windbreaks and be king of a Kansas farm.
Sometime we'll plant hedges and forest trees and checker the country with windbreaks until days like this will belong only to an old pioneer's memory," Asher said, as the storm swept wide away.
We have driven the wilderness back; plowed a fireguard around the whole valley; tempered the hot winds by windbreaks and groves.
I can count twenty young windbreaks from the swell just ahead, and the groves are springing up on many ranches from year to year.
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