Show MOUNDING IS GOOD PRACTICE soil piled around base of tree will keep mice away work can be done any time mounding bounding Moun ding trees with soil piled about afoot a toot high around the trunk keeps away mice which during some years are very destructive if one does not mound his trees he should either put wire netting collars around them or be prepared to tramp down the snow around each eacle tree if there Is much vegetation in the orchard it Is not necessary to do the mound ing ori or banking before the weather becomes fairly cold but there is no reason why this should not be done at any time during the tall fall one important thing Is to scrape all away ay the vegetation that may be close to the trunk so that the earth that is thrown in by tle the shovel will rest up on one earth instead of upon a mat of grass or leaves through which the mice may burrow and thus reach the trunk and girdle it beneath the mound which you have added there have been cases where the short tailed meadow mice burrowed through the bases of the mounds because there was enough organic matter or vegetation under them to make them loose and vulnerable |