Show GOOD protection FOR TREES pennsylvania expert Re recommends commands that all litter be removed and earth mound be erected the damage to trees particularly in young orchards from gnawing by rabbits and mice during tho the wintertime la is very great last winter in I 1 particular there was an unusual abundance of field mice when the snow enow thawed from meadows the burrows ot of mice could be seen extending in all directions many young trees planted in sod eod or where manure or mulch canto came closely around their bases were completely girdled by these anim animals alB As a precautionary measure professor paddock of ohio college of agriculture recommends that litter of all kinds be removed from around the trunks of young trees and that a six inch mound of earth thrown about trunks of such trees Is also a good plan this protection of earth ala also safeguards to a certain cert P in extent against again st winter injury ono one does not want to go to the other extreme however and remove nil all covering from off the young tree roots experiment has shown that a certain amount of organic matter in or on tho the wll will often protect the trees from injury during a hard winter rabbits are always present and the possibility of injuries should always ie guarded against one of the ways recommended tor for preventing the rab from gnawing the tha trees la Is to pro act them with some form of tree protector this may either be a cylinder of fine meshed woven wire or nood vercer or cloth |