Show K ImD PROTECTORS WILL SA SAVE VE MUCH FRUIT Rabbits Damage Trees by Persistent Barking How flow How many farmers farmerR let the rabbits r rob b them of or fruit One farmer told I me me he had planted three orchards and the rabbits had killed all nit of ot them Inside two years ears after atter planted I did not tell him what I thought of ot his management says a writer In the Successful Farming There Is not the slightest use of letting the rabbits bark the trees If you ou dont don't want to take the trouble to make protectors you ou can buy them already made If It you dont don't care to take them off ocr and put them back again Just leave them In place The only reason why rabbits get the trees Is that you dont don't object to It enough to protect them Galvanized window f screen creen wire is an nn I excellent protection for It does not need to be so roo roomy y to protect and If It cloths are forced In around the top and the lower end goes below the surface an Inch or two It protects from mice and borers as ns well as ns rob rab- b bits ts A pocketful of ot lathing nails and the wire cut to strips make putting put ting on on easy Pin the wire around the trees with the nails One One Inch inch poultry wire Is all right if It Is made Into cylinders large enough to prevent the rabbits reachIng reach reach- Ing the tree through the holes It has no value e for tor mice or borers This wire lasts longer but If It the screen protectors are removed In midsummer after danger from the bor borer r- r moths Is past vast they will last long enough Cornstalks tied around the trees serve very well for protection but should be removed during the growing season Some use building paper but the labor and short life of ot this is against Its use Better do something though for tor the first snow that stays on a couple of days will make you wish you had |