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GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



better yet, wire screen with small enough mesh to keep out the 

 mice. This latter should be about 24 inches wide, thus covering the 

 trunk for nearly two feet. Such protection can be used for several 

 seasons. Of course, all guards should extend below the surface a 

 short distance, (two or three inches). Wood and paper guards 

 should always be removed in summer as they harbor insect pests. 



A farmer should provide for "tramping" down about his fruit 

 trees occasionally during the winter, tramping the snow down hard. 

 If one can mound young- fruit trees with earth, coal ashes, or 

 leached wood ashes, or, best of all, cindeis in the late fall so much 





Fig'. 0'2. Baby Rabbits. t)liio Fxiieriiiunt Station. 



the better, first clearing all rubbish away from the trunk and 

 making sure there are no mice runaways or burrows in the soil next 

 to the tree. These mounds need to be only about twelve inches in 

 diameter and about five or six inches in height. Mounding should 

 be done late in the fall, and these mounds may be permanent, possi- 

 bly requiring some renewal each year. They may also be used in 

 connection with the wire screen employed against rabbits. 



Cornstalks two feet in length, fastened closely about the trunk of 

 a fruit tree with hay wire, make an effective barrier against rab- 

 bits. Ballou (Ohio Bulletin No. 208) recommends that they be cut 

 into two foot lengths when brought from the field before being fed 



