

RODENT PROTECTION FOR FRUIT TREES 

 Treatment For Injured Trees; How To Make Grafting Wax 



DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE 



Rodents cause unusual injury. Because of the deep snow 

 covering most of Ohio during the winter, rodents have caused un- 

 usual injury to fruit trees. 

 The snow has been 8 to 12 

 inches deep with a crust on 

 top, thus giving the rabbits 

 a chance to gnaw the trees 

 a distance considerably 

 above the ground, and in 

 some cases there has been 

 injury to the lower limbs. 

 While the rabbits have been 

 working havoc above the 

 snow the mice have been 

 busy beneath the snow and 

 on top of the ground. Re- 

 ports of injury to trees as 

 old as 6 years have reached 

 the Station and requests for 

 information as to how to 

 treat injured trees are com- 

 ing from all sections of the 

 State. 



A few measures of pre- 

 vention as well as methods 

 of treating trees already 

 injured are here suggested. 



Mechanical protectors. 

 The Station has followed 

 the plan of placing a half 

 bushel or more of cinders 

 around the base of newly- 

 planted trees early in the 

 fall and enclosing the trunk 

 of the young trees in cylin- 



Bridge grafting in general 

 1. Wound 2. Scion 

 3. Wax 4. Bark 



ders made of galvanized wire netting, three or four meshes per inch. 

 This cylinder ought to be 5 or 6 inches in diameter and 18 inches 



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