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Missouri Agricultural Eepo)t. 



SMALIi POULTRY NETTING. 



This protector is made of ordinary weight, galvanized wire poultry 

 netting of one inch mesh. This is quite as effective against rabbits as 

 the closer woven wire cloth, but vnW not protect the trees from mice. 







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Fig. 7. The soil mound. 





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Fig. S. Tlie wire screen. 



This netting may be purchased in bales of 150 lineal feet and cut and 

 shaped just as described for the wire cloth. The present price of the 

 24-inch wire is $3.30 per bale. This style of protector would, therefore, 

 cost $2.20 per hundred. These are very neat and sightly and do ad- 

 mirably for cultivated orchards, or wherever the method of culture or 

 the environment does not favor the presence of field mice. In combina- 

 tion with a slight mound of soil about the base of the tree, mice will 

 rarely prove troublesome. 



