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Show intestines, cheap meat products, etc., rubbed on the trees, will give good results. re-sults. The lime-sulphur wash recommended recom-mended by the United States department depart-ment of agriculture has given, considerable consid-erable satisfaction. The wash consists of: Unslaked lime, 20 pounds; flowers of sulphur, 15 pounds; water, 50 gallons. gal-lons. The lime, sulphur and one-third of the water are boiled together for one hour and then the rest of the water added. By adding salt the wash will stick better. PREVENTIVES SAVE ; MANY FRUIT TREES Number of Schemes Have Been Tested Out by Experiment Stations and Growers. (By C. C. VINCENT, Idaho Experimental Station.) The damage caused by rabbits each year during the past few years has become be-come more and more pronounced. In most of our highly developed fruit sections sec-tions the growers have found that it is a very easy matter to prevent rabbits from injuring the trees. In most all cases the damage is due to neglect rather than a lack of efficient remedy. A number of preventives that have been tried out by practical growers and experiment stations are given below: be-low: Poisoned bait has been used very effectively in many sections by placing it where the rabbits can get it. A formula for-mula consisting of one part strychnine, one-third part borax, one part white sirup, ten parts water, recommended by the Ohio experiment station, has given good satisfaction. This mixture Is applied to the tender twigs which are distributed around the base of the tree. Tree protectors are also used by many growers. Strips of wire window screening 18 to 24 inches long and 9 to 12 inches wide are used frequently. frequent-ly. These strips are wrapped around the base of the tree in the form of tubes with the lower end pressed into the ground. A woven wire fence is desirable where the planting is large enough to lustify the expense. Wooden veneer strips, having about the same dimensions dimen-sions as the wiring screening, have llso been recommended. Washes of vn-ious kinds are also used quite extensively by our growers. Heavy rains, however, wash them off occasionally, which makes it necessary to repeat the application. A taint of ny kind on the trunk of the tree will keep the .-abbits from injuring it. Hog |