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in which case they might run in for a few yards. 

 The preventive is simple and effective. Bank 

 up the trees only a few inches in height with 

 clean earth, and smooth it down in the shape 

 of an inverted funnel. The mouse will never 

 climb it. 



Rabbits have been a great pest, and some have 

 been deterred from planting an orchard on account 

 of them. Blood applied to the trees is in nearly all 

 cases a sure preventive from the " Cotton tails," or 

 timber rabbits, but not against Jacks. They are 

 not a nice feeder, and will eat trees so prepared, 

 and even when soaped seem to relish it just the 

 same. The only sure remedy is to encase the 

 trees in something that they will not meddle with. 

 We have found the corn stalks to be the best and 

 cheapest. They should be left on the trees sum- 

 mer and winter. Wire screening is used by some, 

 but is more expensive and no better. They should 

 be shot and trapped, and every effort made to get 

 rid of them. 



Fungoids. These are the lowest forms of vege- 

 table growth, and so minute in their organisms as 

 to require the most powerful microscope to discover 

 them. It lives in the form of mildew, scab of the 

 apple, and is particularly abundant on the leaves oi 

 yearling apple seedlings, and the leaves of the 

 cherry in the latter part of the season, where it 

 appears as a whitish mould, which causes the leaves 

 to curl and frequently drop. The remedy for this 

 is the Bordeaux mixture, described below. It is 



