Show 9 a protectors WILL SAVE MUCH FRUIT rabbits babbits damage trees by persistent barking how many farmers let tile rabbits rob them of fruit one farmer tol told d we me he ha had d planted three orchards and the rabbits had bad killed all of them inside two years after planted I 1 did not cot tell him film what I 1 thought of his management says a writer in the successful forming farming there is not tile the slightest use of letting the rabbits bark the trees if you ou dont lantto want to take the trouble to make protectors protector you can buy them already made if you dont care to take them off off and put them back again just leave them in place the only reason why rabbi ts get the trees Is that you dont jobje object et to it enough to protect them galvanized window screen wire Is an excellent protection for it does not need to be so BO roomy to protect and if cloths claths are forced in around the top and the lower end goes below the surface an inch or two it protects from mice and borers as well as rabbits A pocketful of lathing nails and the wire cut to strips make put ting on easy pin the wire around the trees with the nails one inch poultry wire Is nil right if it la Is made into cyl cylinders Inderb large enough to prevent thu the rabbits reaching the tree through the holes it has no value for mice ot 01 borers this wire lasts longer but if the screen protectors are removed in midsummer after danger front from the borer moths Is past they will last long cornstalks Corn stalks tied around the trees serve very well for protection but should be removed during the growing season some use building paper but the labor and short life of this to Is against its use better do something though for the first snow that stays on a couple of days will make you wish you had |