MISCHIEF OP MEADOW-MOUSE 75 



bark dries up and the tree dies. If light and 

 air are excluded, new bark will form and the 

 wound quickly heal over. To facilitate the 

 healing process, it is important that wounds be 

 covered as soon as possible. All that is needed 

 is to mound up the soil about the trunk of the 

 tree high enough to cover the wound, and the 

 covering should remain all summer. 



MOUSE CAUGHT IN A GUILLOTINE TRAP. 



This is the simplest, cheapest, most humane, and on the 

 whole most effective trap for catching and killing rats, wild 

 mice or house-mice. 



