Show RABBIT PROBLEM IS SOLVED THROUGH CURIOUS COMBINATION Animals Must Be Encouraged and at Same Time Destroyed Do Not Eat Bark Because Especially Especially Espe Espe- daily Fond of It P pOSSIBLY y the greatest dangers faced b by the orchard own owner r during the 1 winter come from the rabbits and field mice Young trees are particular early lar apt to suffer from these thesa pests trees over four years old having bark tough touch enough to escape serious injury The problem of the rabbits is 18 very vary serious serious owing to the extreme difficulty in getting rid of them The best method is the tho rabbit tight fence but this is BO so as to be out of the question in in most cases The same is true truo of the wire net protection for forthe the individual tree Another objection to this thin second method is that any such covering over the trunk of the tree prevents clean cultivation near the baso base of the trunk and also gives protection to borers and ot other er damaging in insects p f j Wt When en we consider that In Utah alone hundreds of ot acres of at young young- trees are killed every year and that the tho trees on many acres 3 more are stunted to such an extent that they never recover we see tho the Importance ance of ot taking some measures at once economical and effective effective ef ef- et- et to secure freedom from tho the rabbits Extensive experiments have been conducted at the Agricultural col col- logo with poisons of ot different natures but while many rabbits were killed tho the results on tho the whole were very er unsatisfactory Tho The only method that has really met expectations Is a a. combination combination com cor- of ot methods and a a. curious combination It seems It consists at once In the encouragement and the tho destruction of ot tho the rabbits Not Fond of at Bark Rabbits do not eat the tho bark of young young- trees because thoy they aro especially especial especial- ly 1 fond of ot It but because during the winter the scarcity of food tood compels them to It has been shown that where hero food tood Is provided tho the rabbits will not bother the tho trees If It small email piles plIes of at sugar beet tops or the beets themselves themselves them them- I selves cabbage o leaves lea or clean alfalfa leaves aro are placed upon the snow throughout the orchard the tho rabbits I will never harm barm tho the treos Tho The evil Jl of ot this method Is apparent however howe b by feeding tho rabbits you ou encourage them and Increase their numbers probably probably abl ably enticing the rabbits from your neighbors' neighbors orchards Right here hore is where tho the second method must be bo employed employed em em- and this Is nothing n more nore oro than thana a x small boy with a If gun The boy will be bo afforded worlds of ot sport and If It he does his hll work well the number of ot rabbits will be easily kept down to the point where they can readily b be handled This method calls colls for tor some little expense and constant watchfulness but what method does docs not When mIen wo we remember that broadly speaking a atreo tree treo killed Is a a. dollar gone a 0 few tew dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars spent for tor food tood and a a. little time sacrificed are arc small considerations Field Mice lIce More D cerous Dangerous as the rabbits Are to young younK orchards tho the field mice are even more so The problem of or getting rid of ot the field mice Is Sa very simple compared to the trouble of ot rabbits First of ot all the orchard should be kept scrupulously clean This work worle must be done dono In the fall tall All weeds must bo be cleared away and all ditch banks must be thoroughly freed treed from weeds and rubbish In this way no protection Is afforded the mice from their enem enemy tho the hawk and they are aro given no place In which to make their nests With tho the appearance of oC winter and the first snow a 8 pathway path a not necessarily over a a. few tew feet foet wide should be beaten do down around tho the entire entire en en- tire Ure orchard and as an added protection protection protection pro pro- crisscross paths should be bc tramped throughout tho the orchard These paths are aro to prevent tho the field mice from neighboring orchards not ns as clean as yours or from bordering bordering- alfalfa fields from coming coming- over o into your our orchard Thoy They accomplish this In n the following way the field Jell mouse is mortally afraid of ot tho the hawk and with good reason especially in the winter Their dark bodies make en enticInG enticing enticing en- en targets for tho hungry hawk circling overhead and once seen by a 3 hawk hak tho the mouse has em small all chanco chance of at escape The Tho snow offers otters great protection to tho the mice mico ordinarily The They can travel over an entire field under Its surface burrowing their way as the they go But once they come to the hard and compact compact compact com com- pact snow of your beaten pathway thoy they must either stop their progress or venture out into the tho open This they will never ne do A small stream strum of ot water not over six Inches across has beon been known to effectively stop all aU mice from entering a 0 certain field Such fear tear of ot the tho hawks have hn they that the they would not venture ono one tiny bound In the open Thus b by keeping your orchard scrupulously clean affording no harbor harbor harbor har har- bor for the mice and by b- not permitting them to s secure cure a start and by making around your orchard a 1 pathway of ot compact snow you OU can rest secure In Inthe inthe the tho thought that your orchard at least will not be bothered by rod rodents |