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Remember last soring when the homeoT/mers were calling in about those rabbit- 

 chewed backyard dwarf fruit trees, and the commercial growers wanted to know v/hat 

 to do about those hopping pests that were skinning the bark off their trees? It 

 was too late then to do anything except cry about it, bridge-graft, or in-arch. 

 But it is not too late now for this season. 



Rabbits live on a diet composed of a large variety of plants. By treating 

 the plants vfhich v/e consider desirable v/ith a material distasteful to the rabbit, 

 we cause it to sviritch its attention to other plants. Only taste repellents have 

 proven practical; area repellents are frequently ineffective, 



TasiB repellents can be divided into two general classes; (l) winter or dormant 

 season; and (2) siuomer or growing season repellents. Two good dormant season 

 repellents are z«i,p, (formerly made by the B, F, Goodrich Chemical Company, and 

 no-.: compounded by the Larvacide Products, Inc., 117 Liberty Street, New York 6, 

 Nev; York), and Ringwood Repellent (Ringwood Chemical Company, Ringwood, Illinois), 



Explicit directions for their use are given on the label of each package. 

 The z.i.p, seems to retain its effectiveness best if it is painted on with a brush. 

 Simply dilute the z.i.p, with only enough water so that it will spread easily ;Yith 

 a paint brush. The Ringwood product appears to be equally weather-resistant, 

 whether painted or sprayed on the tree trunk. 



In order to properly use these materials, one uust be somewhat of a vreather 

 prophet. All bark to a height that rabbits might reach during a heavy snow period 

 must be coated with a repellent, 



Ilassachusetts fruit growers can obtain at least one of these repellents from 

 the following sources: 



Caldvrell and Jones 

 1108 Main Street 

 Hartford, Connecticut 



Eastern Chemical Company 

 289 Ashland Street 

 Holliston, Massachusetts 



Essex County Cooperative Farming Association 



Topsfield 



Ilassachusetts 



Frank's Market Garden 

 Allen Street 

 Springfield, liass. 



Frost Insecticide Company 

 2k Mill Street 

 Arlington, Massachusetts 



— ¥. R. Jones 

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