The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-18

G.. A. Chinberg of Hankinson, N. ID.
delivered the following interesting adj
dress at the Tri-State convention
yesterday afternoon:
The ~windbreaks of North Dakota and
western Minnesota have been without
al doubt the greatest factors in maxi
ing this country the beautiful and hab-
liable place it is today.
Contrast North Dakota .twenty-fiv
or thirty years ago inc North Dakota
today. A person who went through
this state then would hardly believe
that it is the same country, not only as
to looks but also on account of the
climatic Improvement brought about
by the tree planting that has been done
during the last twenty years. If the
statistics were available 1t would sur
prise us as to the number Of acres
planted to trees in this country at the
present time and still YOU may say
that it is only a beginning. Those Of
us who will be here twenty-five years
from now will see just as big a change
for the better as what has been
brought about in the past.
The trouble with the windbreak
planting of the past has been that 1t
has been mostly of the temporary hap
hazard style. about the only thing the
planters of the past as a general rule
seemed to have in mind was to get
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get a windbreak for today and giving
no thought of tomorrow, consequently
there has been no attention paid as to
system in laying out the ground or as
to the varieties of trees planted.
The cry has been give me something
that will grow quickly, but friends. the
time is past n gone when the people
who came here came only with the i'm
tention OF staying awhile until they
made a stake and then selling out and
going back where they came from.
The people who are here today know
that North Dakota is not only a good
place to make money, but a mighty
good place to live. Consequently our
people OF today are making homes
their children after them and so you
will find also that the tree planter OF
today is giving more attention to de-
tails both ais to choice of varieties and
laying out of ground. I'll tell you La
dies and gentlemen. If the trees that
are growing in our state today had
been planted the way they should have
been, not only the Immediate owners
but the state as a whole, would derive
double the benefit from them that 1t
does today. AS it lis at present hardly
one grove ont of a dozen is planted to
give the results it. should.
How often when you drive through
the country haven't you remarked,
there's a fine grove but If you
should try to drive into a place some
time during the winter after a hard
snow storm you would find out it was
anything but fine. You wouldn't be
able to get near the house or the build
ings on account Of the nov drifts
piled up sky high.
Now, friends, such conditions are
Ilnnecessary. If that ~windbreak had
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| been the trees would have surely
grown just as well and it would not he
necessary to climb over snow drifts
twenty to thirty feet high. Don't
make the mistake Of planting our
Ew~indbreak TOO close to the buildings,
nothing adds so much to the beauty
Iof a farm house as a nice large yard
around the house. Start your first
trees ait least 100 to 100 feet from your
buildings, planting them eight BY eight
feet apart. Prepare YOUR ground the
same as IL you intended 1T for corn.
any ground that would be in condition
TO plant corn will do to plant trees In.
When you are ready to plant them
take 81 large walking pillow. set Ii as
deep ag you can, then pillow up burrows
eight feet apart then so along with 81
spade and take out a spadefuI or two
every eight feet and you have d place
deep enough for each tree. This We
find Ii b great deal better than digging
holes al If Ioosens UP the ground and
laiyes the trees ii quicker start
Everyone that plants trees likes TO
get auick results that's no more than
natural. but you must not lose sigl1tsof
the fact that nearly all fast growing
trees are not long lived OF course
some arc worse than others, AXE for
linstance the cottonwood which ypii
might call nearly worthless for wind
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