Protection of Fruit Trees. 



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STANDARD POULTRY NETTING. 



It often happens that the planter of a few trees has at hand a 

 quantity of old poultry netting of standard or 2-inch mesh. From this 

 stock in hand quite serviceable protectors can be made by cutting out 

 sections 18x24 inches in size and rolling them around a section of broom 

 handle, as described. The mesh being so large, the pieces are cut six 

 inches wider than in Figs. 8 and 9, in order that there may be at least 



Fig. 9. Small meshed poultry netting. Fig. lo. Standard poultry netting. 



two rounds of the netting encircling the stem of the tree. Rabbits and 

 woodchucks will not be able seriouly to injure a tree thus protected. 

 This form presents no obstacle to the work of mice ; but mounding 

 slightly, in connection, will bafHe these little pests. Made from new 

 stock 24 inches wide, purchased by the bale of 150 lineal feet, this style 

 would, at present prices, cost $1.50 per hundred protectors. 



