LYMAN’S PROLIFIC CRAB. 89 
The seed is from the Haas crossed with Siberian crab. It was 
planted in 1868. The tree now measures thirty-four feet across, 
while the body is forty-two inches around. Itis an annual bearer 
and free from blight. In size of fruit, it is like the Whitney. It 
LYMAN’S PROLIFIC CRAB. 
bears very young, often in the nursery row at three years of age 
from the graft, and produces enormous crops ranging from ten to 
to twenty-five bushels annually. The fruit is well colored and very 
firm, bearing handling far better than the Transcendent, these qual- 
ities making it a valuable market apple. 
PROTECTING TREES FROM JACK RABBITS.—Jack rabbits have been 
very numerous and destructivein Meade county this season. Here- 
tofore I have wrapped thetrees or whitewashed them for protection. 
This fall I put on the whitewash, but a continued wet spell took it 
off, and the rabbits damaged several trees. I waskilling rabbits for 
chicken feed at the time and had halfa dozen on hand when I noticed 
thedamage. I skinnedarabbit, cut off the hind quarter and rubbed 
the remainder on the tree, and continued until the flesh was pretty 
well worn off. I followed this with the quarters until the whole 
rabbit was usedup. I treated all the apple trees on the farm in this 
manner, and the method seems entirely successful. It is cheap and 
easy of application, one rabbit covering about 150 trees, the trees 
being two to four inches in diameter, with short trunks.—E. D. 
Smith, Meade County, Kansas. 
