Mr. Maher: If I had twenty rows of trees I would put them together.
Mr. Horton: Would you have an open space outside of those twenty trees for the snow to lodge in?
Ponderosa Pine windbreak—at Devil's Lake (N. D.) Nursery.
Mr. Maher: I have never known the snow to do any hurt in a twenty row windbreak. It distributes itself in there, and the more comes the better.
Mr. Horton: I have seen them broken badly with the snow.
Mr. Maher: That would be probably the poplars and trees that break easily.
Mr. Horton: On my farm I put out a row of twenty trees. Outside of that I left a space on the north and west six rods wide, and I put out some golden willows outside of that, and that made an open space for the snow to fall in.
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.
Mr. Moyer: I found that the snow drifted into my evergreens but didn't break them. I used lilac bushes; I planted a long row. Lilacs are very common, and I got enough to plant a long row. They are now ten feet high, and it is a magnificent sight in summer.