| Show RABBITS HURT APPLE TREES injury can be prevented by wrapping with tar paper burlap or use of lath screen ely by J A ANDERSON horticulturist morris blinn As soon as there Is a sufficient snowfall to make winter feed somewhat scarce rabbits and mice will attack young apple trees and damage or entirely kill them by feeding on the bark at the ground or on the snow now line such injury can be prevented ob ly y wrapping the trees to a height abnee the snow line with tar paper or burlap or by placing a lath screen proa J vp I 1 I 1 az 4 v 3 fe 7 FX alv tv W em wy 4 tv c na apple tree wrapped for winter with paper to protect against rabbits around them if the drifts around the trees are very high it may be advisable to break the snow drift around the trees so that the rabbits cannot reach the branches washing the trunk with whitewash containing copperas or sulphur Is also effective hunting and trapping rabbits in the snow break or orchard during the early winter months is helpful too young fruit trees are greatly benefited during the winter by a heavy mulch of manure this should be spaded in in the sp it will stimulate growth and development during the winter it will help to present A root killing |
