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Updated: May 26, 2025
While he sometimes met with smooth stretches of snow-covered ice, it was generally piled in huge wind-rows, incredibly rugged and difficult to surmount. Again it would be broken away from the base of sheer cliffs, where stretches of open water would necessitate toilsome inland detours over or around lofty headlands. He was always buffetted by strong winds, and often halted by blinding snowstorms.
Oh, it was not easy talking to the man, with his muttering and muttering and his chin down firm intil the book. When he had his shack on Mouse Island the fire jumped over from the wind-rows they were burning in a right of way. What next?
If your fallow is full of evergreens, such as hemlock, pine, balsam, cedar, and such description of timber, then I should say wind-rows are the best; but when the timber is deciduous, heaps are better. The brush should be carefully piled and laid all one way, by which means it packs closer and burns better.
The next operation is to cut down all the small trees and brush this is called under-brushing. The rule is to cut everything close to the ground from the diameter of six inches downwards. There are two modes of piling, either in heaps or in wind-rows.
Sometimes an unusually deep furrow turned out a white bone but more often the relics were undisturbed, and the meadows used as pastures or hay-fields. John and I lay down on some wind-rows, and sunned ourselves in the warm and delicious air.
Your under-brush should be all cut and piled by the end of November, before the snow falls to the depth of four inches, for after that it would be both difficult and tedious. The chopping now begins, and may be followed without any interruption until the season for sugar-making commences. The heads of the trees should be thrown upon the heaps or wind-rows.
It is still the practice of the country to call these spots wind-rows. By letting in the light of heaven upon the dark and damp recesses of the wood, they form a sort of oases in the solemn obscurity of the virgin forests of America.
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