REPORTS FROM NURSERYMEN. 



83 



under the snow. I think they will eat the hark from any kind of young tree.s. 

 The daiuago is serious. — Montpelier, Vt., Nov., 1S8G. 



Voles sometimes gnaw young apple and pear trees, mostly in winter : in sum- 

 mer also where red clover grows ahout the trees. The loss is serious. 



— Salem, Ohio, t8S(l, 



Meadow uiice are injurious to meadows and pastures hy cutting the sod in 

 winter. We had an invasion of them in the winter of 1804, when they killed 

 grape vines, raspherries, and crab-apple trees 5 inches in diameter. 



— Stoughton, Wis., 1887. 



Field mice are destructive to grain crops. Their depredations are mostly 

 confined to the consumption of grain, but the injury by them depends upon the 

 nut crop; if this is plentiful they do not disturb grain, or corn chiefly, but if 

 there is a scarcity of nuts, they make incursions on the fields of corn, doing 

 considerable damage. —Columbia, Conn., Sept., 1887. 



The majority of the preceding reports refer to the common meadow 

 mouse (J/, pennsylvanicus) and its subspecies, but some of them from 

 the Middle West undoubtedl}^ inchide references to the prairie vole 

 (M. ochrog aster) , which is more numerous there. Most of the destruc- 

 tion to potatoes and stored vegetables may be attributed to pine mice. 



REPORTS FROM NURSERYMEN AND ORCHARDISTS. 



Early in March, 190G, a circular letter of inquiry asking for infor- 

 mation in regard to damages by field mice was sent to more than a 

 thousand representative nurserymen and fruit growers in the United 

 States and southern Canada. Up to April 10. 190(5, replies returned 

 number 520. of which a summary is ])resented in tabular form. 



Damages hy field mice, as reported Ity niirserj/meji and fniif growers. 



"Probably not Microtus. 



