180 FARM APPLIANCES. 



JAPANESE PRUNING SAW. 



The Japanese use a pull saw instead of a push saw. 

 One of these is quite handy, especially for pruning. The 

 teeth are like those of a rip saw, reversed, and cut when 

 the saw is pulled towards one. One of these saws, made 



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Fig. 214. PRUNING SAW. 



as shown in figure 214, and fixed to a pole of convenient 

 size, will be found very useful in cutting branches of tall 

 trees, as in pulling there is no tendency to bend the saw 

 or the pole. 



RABBITS AND MICE IN THE ORCHARD. 



Not the least of the enemies of young orchard trees is 

 the rabbit. He will not injure the trees in summer, 

 when he has an abundance of succulent food ; but in 

 winter the tender bark is to him a dainty that he will 

 partake of, if it is not made distasteful to him, or he is not 

 kept away. Making the snow into a solid mound about 

 the tree will keep away mice, but not rabbits, though it 

 is often said it would. The rabbits will get on the mound 

 and nibble away. Besides, we don't have snow half the 

 time during the winter. The best way is to make the 

 bark distasteful to the rabbit. He likes neither blood, 

 nor grease, nor the odor of flesh. When you butcher, 

 take the waste parts of the animals, and with these parts 

 rub the trunks as far up as the rabbits can reach. The 

 rabbits never nibble a tree so treated, while the grease or 

 blood remains. 



If the rabbits " bark" a tree, the first thing to be done 

 is to examine the extent of the injury. Frequently it is 



