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PROTECTION AGAINST ANIMALS. 



wliich destroyed the 

 young plantations on 

 thou.sands of acres in 

 Germany. The destruc- 

 tion is greatest when it 

 collects in swarms and 

 wanders from place to 

 place. Voles and mice 

 are specially destructive 

 in forest nurseries. 



A description of the 



Fii;. 46. — Apple-tree gnawed by hares (« b), 

 and by mice (I c) (ttat. size). 



Fig. 44.— Beech Fig. 45.— Alder 



gnawed by gnawed by 



mice {tiat. mice {nat. 



size). size). 



damage done in 1814 by this species and the long-tailed field- 

 mouse is given in Nicholls' * account of the Forest of Dean. 



• rublished by John Murray, Albeiiiarle Street, London, 1858. 



