Shelter Belt Realities.

Discusses that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's project for a Great Plains shelter belt, one hundred miles wide and stretching from Canada to Texas, is just now suffering from over-publicity. View that the chief thing that a shelter belt is supposed to accomplish is the preventing, or at least the minimizing, of dust storms; Location of shelter-belt project to the eastward of the principal dry farming areas; Experiments of the Forest Service, which show that a shelter belt composed of trees one hundred feet high will reduce evaporation on the ground moisture by perhaps as much as one third, for a distance of thirteen hundred feet to leeward; Claim that a shelter belt is no substitute for adequate rainfall; Economic significance of shelter belt project