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vents this trouble, and various means are employed to that end. 

 Sometimes the trunk is covered with hay, straw, corn-stalks, bur- 

 lap or paper, wire netting or laths wired together, or it may be 

 shaded by a board set up on the southwest side. All these are good 

 and answer the purpose, and many of them protect from mice, 

 rabbits, and flat-head borers as well, if properly attended to ; but 

 one of the best is the lath screen, which is easily made, is cheap, 

 durable and satisfactory. 



Fig. 5b —S'lnscnldfd t7'ee. 

 a, a, a, dead wood. 



Fig h&. — Loth sere fri in 

 place around tree. 



The lath screen protector is shown in Fig. 56. It is easily and 

 quickly made, but whether it will be cheaper to use than wood 

 veneers will depend on circumstances. Each of these methods of 

 protection secures immunity from sunscald, mice, rabbits and the 

 flat-head borer to the part they cover, and also protect the bark 

 from whifQe-trees. Six cr seven common laths and three No. 18 



