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Show PROTECTION GIVEN TO TREES Danger of Barking Can Be Avoided by Driving Stakes or Wrapping With Wire Fencing. Many fruit trees are seriously injured, in-jured, or even killed, by being barked with a singletree in cultivating. It takes a very careful man to get through the season in cultivating the orchard without doing any injury. On the average farm where the orchard is of minor importance, the farm hands and even the owner are careless and bark many trees. This danger can be Three Stakes. Four Stakes. avoided by driving three or four stout stakes around the tree as shown in the cuts and nailing some pieces at the top to hold them firm, says the Farm, and home. If wrapped with woven wire fencing, not even the pigs can injure your trees. |