Show dim 0 A PROTECT YOUR APPLE TREES thin wooden veneer wrapper affords best protection against girdling by rodents newly planted apple trees should be protected against winter gardlin by mice and rabbits A tree thoroughly or even pal aly girdled has little or no athance to live without expert bridge grafting ahlich Is not especially easy at least for the man ho is coined to it perhaps tile best krotec lion Is obtained by using a thin wooden veneer wrapper which has been soaked to keep it from breaking then bent around the tree and held in place by a single wire about the middle the mire stays in place better if passed y 0 A apple tree girdled by mice below surface of the ground through a hole near the outer edge of the veneer wrapper the wrapper should be pushed down into the earth so that mice cannot burrow under it or they may be shut shift out by heaping soil up around the bottom of the lie case and tramping it firm colled coiled screen wire may be used in much the same way but it is more expensive the veneer wrappers do not usually cost more than one half or three quarters of a cent apiece and can lie be secured from any orchard supply house bunches of long grass or split corn stalks may give rood good protection against rabbits but fall fail to keep mice from doing harm newspapers or tar paper wrapped around the tree trunk have been successfully used by many paint and washes do not give good results as the rabbits sometimes seem to attack the washed trees more than the untreated ones |