Windbreaks on the Prairies

Name: Windbreaks on the Prairies
Released: 1943-01-02
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Tommy Tweed

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This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice to facilitate plowing, they discovered that the trees had served as windbreaks protecting top soil from erosion. The Dominion Department of Agriculture's experimental station...