Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-13
"SHELTER-BELT FORESTS.
For a Level Country There is no
Form of Forest Planting, so Bene-
fetal in Everyday as the Shelter.
belt system.

Form of Forest Planting, so Bene-
fetal in Everyday as the Shelter
belt System.
In clearing of the forest.-in primitive
forest rsgions-a reservation Of the sec
ond growth trees, three or more rods
wide, on the margin of each 40 acre
tract. and the planting Of similar belts
of trees on the the four sides of each
farm, and on the margins Of the lakes,
streams, an5 ancient water courses, in
the prairie regions, will result in pro-
ducing the greatest beneficial climatic
notifications the maintenance and in
crease of the water supply, and an in
creased average yield of all farm
crops.
The extent Of their results, will be
proportional to the extent, the dislri-
button, and the growth of the trees coln-
posing the shelter-belt.
By means of the shade afforded, by
such evenly distributed forests, the evap-
Grafton from the soil produced by the
SUMS rays will be lessened, and the me-
chanical resistance to the winds afforded
by such belts. of trees, will also reduce
the volume of evaporation in a greater
dSEI &C, pei IL tS, I1ld1 ttlC ludllliIy tNdp-
GRATED by the heat afforded by the rays
of the sun. While the resistance to
winds has a tendency to lessen the de-
structive effects Of violent storms upon
growing crops.
Shelter-belt forests, will lessen the
drifting of the soil in thes summer, and
the snow in the winter and make the
climate more endurable Tor man and
beast.
Such forests will more generally :mod-
ify the extreme electrical conditions of
t~reeless regions, for by fmeans of their
branches and foliage constantly acting as
silent conductors for the transmission of
local surcharged atmospheric electrical
currents, to the moist earth, penetrated
by the roots Of the trees.
Such shelter-belt forests. cool. and
condense atmospheric moisture, and if
not directly increasing the deposit of
dew, and the volume Of rainfall, the
cooling of the atmosphere reduces its
capacity for absorption of moist
IRE and therefore lessons the
evaporations of moisture from the soil.
And thus increasing the continuance of
the water supply in the soil to be evap-
grated in the late summer months, when
the rain fall is usually the least, and
when atmospheric moisture is especial
ly needed to ensure the completion of
vegetable growth, and ensure the lar
| gest crop production.
Such forms OF forest planting, because
| Of this general distribution and protec-
ton afforded invites the early Spring,
and %prolongs their stay in this Autumn.
Shelter-belts afford the best possible
distribution of shade, And thus re-
tard the increase of the chinch- bug,
grasshopper. and such other agricultu-
raj insect foes, as multiply and revel in
the sunshine of hot, dry and shadeless
regions.
The products from the trimmings of
the shelter-belts viii afford a constant
supply of timber suitable for many farm
| uses.
The shelter-belt form of forest reser-
walton, and planting, is, for these, and
many other clinatical and economical
reasons, the most beneficial, and profit
able to the individual planter, as well as
the general public.
Such a form otreserved, orplanted for
est, require but little, if any more ex-
penditure of labor than the ordinary
group form, and makes the farm more
attractive and valuable, the value and
attractiveness increasing year by zeal in
proportion to the growth of the trees
composing the shelter-belts,
EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FARM.
Lake Preston. ID. 7.