SHADE TREES ON THE FARM.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 108, 27 June 1885, Page 7

SHADE TREES ON THE FARM.

V pew well-formed trees along the fonce .•ows, ami even scattered here and there in the open fields^ add greatly to the ap pearance and value of a farm. Cattle, sheep, and other farm animals, tuffoi greatly from the hot sun when confined in a shadeless pasture in midsummer. They will seek the slight protection from the broiling sun a fence may afford, 01 stand huddbd together For hours, with their heads shaded by each other, in a most flnhealthfu'l manner. Animals thus exposed do not give the best returns to their owners, and for this reason, if j not for comfort's sake, they should bo provideJ with shade. Some farmers object to trees in the pasture^ because their shade i 9 tao inviting, and keeps the live stock from feeding. EWm animals tfeed iot graze nil the time, and with good pasturage can get all the grass they teed in the coal portions of the' day, etween which (hey should have refreshing shade for chewing the cud of contentment. Men are not the only creatures that may be saitstruck \ cows anduly exposed to heat frequently be come sick, quickly fall off in milk, and may require weeks of expensive nursing to bring them back to good health , Creeß are an obstruction to the cultivaion of a field, and occupy the- soil foi sdvprftl feet around tnom, to the exolu jion of grain or other crops, i and tlwre-

''ore-it is best to phnt >iuk( of the tree? along tho line of boundary fences. Tip tirod labourer is thankful for a few., minutes of shade and rest, and doubtless". 1 will do more work by taking an occasional " broattiing spell" under a tree. In many fields there is a low place with a spring or striall tunning stream) and > well fitted for a group of trees; In short, any part pf a field not suitdd to cuiuvaltou may prclUubly a lew l.foos, thin nffor Unu; fi rot roat for tlio live stock from tlie uiid-dny sun a^d driving stor-iiq. If the pasture has no shale trees it will pay to provide temporary/ picker, Fonr stroncr posts with forlcs at thf top m iv su|>port two pojps, across th«SG lay sni'illor poles for rafters The top may bo covorcd wi<h straw, drtniasyed liay. or if, more convenient, brush may ue cut and laid upon the skeleton roof.