166 FARM APPLIANCES. 



Figures 193 and 194 represent a device which is free from 

 this objection. It consists simply of a piece of card-board 



Fig. 194. PLANT PROTECTOR. 



or stiff paper of any kind, as seen in figure 193. "When 

 the ends are brought together, and the slits, indicated 

 in the engraving, made to interlock, a cone, as seen in 

 figure 194, is produced which, when put around a plant, 

 furnishes as. complete a protector against insects as the 

 most expensive device. 



MUSLIN-COVERED PLANT SCREEN. 



To make the device, figure 195, take four strips, 

 one-haJf inch thick and one inch wide, and twelve 



Fig. 195. PLANT PROTECTOR. 



inches long ; bore a hole in one end of these, through 

 which pass a wire, the ends of which are twisted 



