SHELTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 20

SHELTER.

Reference to the great importance of shelter to all live stock farmers is timely, because .Tune is the best month for tree planting. On pastoral properties there is no outlay that will yield a more adequate return than that incurred in establishing live shelter hedges or belts. One of the first things that forcibly strikes one. when travelling through Xew Zealand, is the almost entire absence of trees of any kind in great stretches of otherwise fine graz ing land, and the demand that has set in for pinus insignia timber has already tempted many farmers to cut down the few trees that at least served to make their farms more or less attractive in appearance. If live shelter is a necessity on sheep and cattle grazing farms, they are surely more so on dairy farms. The milk cow. in comparison with graz ing stock, has a continuous two-fold drain on her constitution, and if she is fully exposed to all kinds of weather throughout the year, as a result of the absence of shelter, it is not difficult to realise that her yield of milk must be