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"runs" and burrows of field 



trees and see what may be found. Many 

 mice are thus exposed, but the trees, so far, seem to be untouched; for 

 it should be remembered that proper precautions had been taken each 

 autumn previous, to protect these same trees from winter injury by mice. 

 We are just about to congratulate ourselves that our j^oung orchard 

 is unblemished when we examine a much-prized tree of the Benoni 

 apple and find it almost completely girdled. There are even fresh 

 marks of mischievous, little teeth, impressing us with the truth 



Fig'. 4. They promi.se to be good. 



that we should not consider our mulched trees safe from these little 

 rodents even in the summer season. 



Resuming our way through a younger portion of the orchard we 

 come upon a little tree whose stem is scarred by deep, jagged wounds 

 where the powerful jaws and vicious cutting teeth of some rodent have 

 been exercised. The bark has not been eaten as bv rabbits or mice — 



