Show Is PROTECT YOUNG FRUIT TREES something should be done to keep rabbits away during winter season some use paper young fruit trees should be protected from the rabbits during the want winter er season for two or three years after they fire are set in the orchard some do this by tying paper about the trunks trunk s of the young trees others fliers 0 paint the trunks with blood from the slaughter house and still others apply a mixture consisting of soap water an and d some other ingredient like tar or car carbolic bolle acid to the trunks of the trees to a distance of 18 inches or more above the ground of these three methods the alie second with one writer proved to be the most successful for years he used the first method that of tying papers about the trunks of the trees but he found that insects harbored beneath the paper also that it took a great deal of work and time to fasten the paper about the tr trees ec 0 especially it if there were many trees to be protected so he discarded this method and Is now using the old method of painting the trunks of the young trees with biond b for be best st results the blood should be ft applied two or three times during a winter it ean can be applied with a brush or swab of rags tied on the end of a stick |