BIRDS—TOA DS—RABBITS—MICE, 17) 
fond. The bark may be protected by smearing it with 
blood, or rubbing it with liver, or smearing it with 
tobacco water, or lime water, with enough copperas 
added to turn it green. A little cheap glue will make 
the wash stick to the bark. ‘Thick paper around a tree 
will keep them from gnawing the bark. Charles Down- 
ing recommends a paint made of a handful of flowers of 
sulphur, half a spadeful of soot, a spadeful of fresh cow 
dung, with a spadeful of hot slacked lime, applied on a 
dry day. He says English gardeners set upswabs dipped 
in melted sulphur among the trees in their nurseries. 
2. Mrapow Mice (Mus arvicole).—Meadow mice are 
Fig. 146, Fig. 147. Fig. 148. 
SAVING GIRDLED TREES. 
known by various names in different parts of the country, 
such as short-tailed field mice, ground mice, ete., and 
are sometimes called moles, although they are very dif- 
ferent from them. They are covered with long gray 
hair, have very thick heads, and very short tails. They 
all burrow in the ground. The greatest damage done by 
meadow mice is gnawing off the bark of fruit trees. 
They do this most when the ground is covered with 
snow. Like the rabbit, they multiply rapidly. Their 
hiding places may be found in brush heaps, under stacks 
of grain and hay, and similar places. 
Remedies.—Burn the brush heaps. Set the rails up on 
end so as not to make a shelter for the mice, and keep 
