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Show PREVENT INJURY TO THE ORCHARD TREES Warm Days During Spring Will Cause Sap to Flow Mice Also Cause Much Damage. Often the trunk and larger branches of fruit trees turn brown in the spring. This is due to sun scald. The warm days during the winter and spring will cause the sap in the trunk to flow, which is injurious to the tree. This Injury can be controlled through the shading of the trunk. It is a good plan to erect boards or burlap sacks on the south side of the trunk of the tree; this will shade and prevent the bright days of the sun from starting the sap to flow. Another injury that is found on young trees, especially, Is caused by mice. The mice gnaw the bark on small trees around which there is a considerable amount of grass or straw. To reduce this1 loss it is simply necessary neces-sary to remove the straw from the base of the tree. If this is done there will not be much loss. |