ed to the tree planting on the farmstead. You
know what the state art society had been doing. There is another
dragnet. You have seen the Minnesota Art Journal, which is dealing with
the problems in tree planting of the farm, planting around the farm
house; That in connection with the modern farm house that has been
suggested, these things have a very important bearing upon problems in
which both you and the university are interested.

And then we can look forward to the time when you will have your
permanent home, if not on the farm grounds themselves at least near
there, where we could co-operate and use the same building, so that
while it would be yours you will feel that it is being utilized
throughout the year in such a way that the expenditure of the money
would be justified.

There is a fine vista ahead of us, a vista of the things to be,
accomplished by means of this American combination of private initiative
and enterprise and idealism and the support of the state for certain
details of work which can be best accomplished in that way.

The Shelter Belt for Orchard and Home Grounds.

A DISCUSSION LED BY JOHN W. MAHER, NURSERYMAN, DEVILS LAKE, N. DAK.

Mr. Maher: The subject this morning is to be on "Shelter-Belt for
Orchard and Home Grounds." I am satisfied, provided the "Home Grounds"
include the whole farm.

The entire farm needs shelter, particularly from the hot, drying winds
and other destructive winds that uncover and cut down crops in
springtime and carry away the fertile top soil; and the summer winds,
hot winds, of course, that eat up the moisture; and those destructive
winds that sometimes harvest our barley and other crops before they are
cut. We need protection from all these winds, and in this latitude these
winds blow uniformly from the southwest. 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.

[Illustration: Apple tree windbreak at Devil's Lake Nursery. Hibernal in
the foreground. Patten's Greening in the distance.]

There is another phase of protection that has been emphasized this year
very much, and that is, protection against summer frosts and late spring
frosts. A gentleman living at McIntosh, near Crookston, in this state,
told me that corn matured up there wherever it was protected from the
north wind. At the Devils Lake Nursery we had a 400-bushel per acre
potato crop protected onl