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indistinct upon the zinc label, but the chief fault is 

 its inconspicuousness. It requires much searching to 

 find a ziuc label upon a large tree, and this objection 

 holds with almost every practicable tree label which 

 has been introduced, even with the three or four -inch 

 pine labels which are common in the market. Patent 

 /inc. and copper labels, which are cut from very thin 

 metal, so that the record can be made .by the impres- 

 sions of a sharp point or style, have been tried at 

 Cornell. "These pretty and so-called indestructible 

 labels are furnished with an eyelet through which the 

 wire passes. We were much pleased with these 

 labels when we put them upon our orchard trees 

 one fall ; but the next spring we found that the 

 metal had broken away from the eyelets, and nothing 

 remained of them but a hole hung upon a wire."* 



The Cornell label is the device shown at No. 3, in 

 the illustration (Fig. 46). "We buy the pine 'pack- 

 age label,' which is used by nurserymen, and which 

 is 6 in. long and 1% in. wide. These labels cost, 

 painted, $1.30 per thousand. These are wired with 

 stiff, heavy, galvanized wire, much like that used for 

 pail bales, and not less than eighteen inches is used 

 upon each label. Hooks are turned in the ends of 

 the wires before the labels are taken to the field. 

 A pail of pure white lead, well thinned with oil, is 

 taken to the field with the labels. The record is 

 made with a very soft pencil, the label is dipped 

 into the paint, the wire is placed about a conspic- 



*Bull. 61, Cornell Exp. Sta. 341. 



