Show Protect Fruit Trees The only safe way to prevent rab- rab rabbits rab rabbits bits from Crom gnawing the bark of the trunks of or young fruit trees Is to wrap the base of the tree trunks from Crom the ground to a height or of about 18 to 20 O Inches or the space between the ground and the lowest branches Where the branches are less than 18 Inches above the soil soli the wrappers should Include both trunk and branches to a height of about 18 or 20 O Inches Various kinds or of wrapping material may be used Some of the most common are 1 Inch 1 Inch mesh poultry wire window screen wire galvanized wIre netting having three or four meshes to the Inch old newspapers gunny sacks torn In strips G 0 to 8 Inches wide and cornstalks Wood Wood- Wood veneer veneer wrappers patented wire wrappers tarred paper and build buildIng log ng paper may be bought and used |