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Show WIRE WRAPPERS ARE MOST SATISFACTORY Afford Young Fruit Trees Best Protection Against Rabbits, Says an Expert. Wire wrappers afford young fruit trees the best protection against rabbits, rab-bits, according to F. S. Merrill, assistant assist-ant professor of horticulture in the Kansas State Agricultural college. The use of poison baits and preventive washes, as well as such time-honored methods as shooting and trapping, also is effective. Rabbits are a serious pest in orchards, or-chards, and in many localities are so numerous as to cause considerable in- j jury, especially to young trees. One orchardist in the northeastern part of the stnte lost nearly 40 acres of young trees last winter from their work. The best wrappers are made from galvanized wire. The initial cost of wire wrappers is heavy, but since they nre permanent, they are the cheapest protection in the long run. Either window screen or quarter-inch mesh screen may be used. Both are satisfactory, satis-factory, but the window screen serves to reduce the injury of borers as well as rabbits. In making the wire wrappers, 18 to 20 inch wire should be used,- depending depend-ing upon the height of the first limbs on the trees. It should be cut into 12-inch lengths and fastened with wire or hooks. The lower edge should be buried a few inches in the ground. This will keep field mice off. Poison baits have been successfully used In the northwest, but their use Is risky since the baits may be consumed con-sumed by stock. Preventive washes shoUId be adhesive, repellent, and non-injurious. non-injurious. Carbolic acid, lime sulphur, and a mixture of soft soap, carbolic acid and sal soda, are all good washes. |