HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



I'roteot your Trees from Mice 



Continued from pagr- 1. column 2 



The best known orchard practice for 

 the control of mice is to hoe away all 

 leaves, grass and other trash from around 

 the trunk for a distance of two feet and 

 to place a protector snugly around the 

 tree set firmly on the bare ground. 



There are two kinds of pjotectors being 

 used by orchardists in this state. Gal- 

 vanized wire .screening with a quarter 

 inch mesh is a very good protector. Its 

 biggest disadvantage is the first cost 

 which will vary from 15 to 20 cents a 

 tree. This protector will last a long time 

 and will not cost any more than new 

 paper protectors put on every year. 

 Water-proof building paper wiapped 

 tightly around the trunk and tied .secure- 

 ly with twine is being used with very fair 

 success. Mice may gnaw through it, but 

 very rarely do. 



Do not use tar paper or building paper 

 that is not water-proof because the tar 

 is often injurious to the bark, and the 

 common building paper will soak up and 

 slip down the trunk. An ordinary 3-ft. 

 roll cut in two will give you protectors of 

 about the right height. Wrap the trunk 

 tight enough so that a mouse could not 

 fall inside. 



Poisons may be used where mice are 

 very troublesome and additional precau- 

 tion seems necessary. 



The protection of your trees is fully as 

 important as any spraying that you do 

 and must be done just as thoroughly. 



cent, and that it be mixed frequently to 

 avoid the lo.ss of the essential nicotine 

 into the air. No more efficient or prac- 

 tical control of intestinal and cecum 

 worms can be adopted than the use of 

 tobacco dust in the mash. 



Tilke Cut Filler TreeM ]\o\v 



Continued from p;ig-e 8. column :i 

 there was out of your filler trees, prove 

 to your neighbors that you are a better 

 man now, than you were five years ago. 

 Take out your filler trees and give the 

 permanents a chance. 



The axe is probably the best way of 

 ridding yourself of the filler trees, if you 

 have only a few. But if you have a large 

 number, get a block and tackle — a good 

 hu.sky one — and work down the row, tying 

 to one filler tree while you fasten the 

 tackle high on the one you want to pull 

 out. Drive the team down the row you 

 are working on and pull the tree over, and 

 then out. Hitch the team to the tie-end 

 of the ligging and pull the tackle 

 through. You are now all set to pull the 

 next tree with the team and tackle in ap- 

 proximate position. 



Now is a good time to remove these 

 ti'ees, as your other work is not too press- 

 ing, and you can work them up during the 

 winter. Apple wood is worth real money, 

 too. 



Frederick Cole, Jr., 



Extension Siiecialif;t in Fruit Growing. 



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H. D, SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



GRAIN, COAL, ICE 



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FARM MACHINERY 



TOBACCO DUST EFFECTIVE 



Poultry Round Worms Completely 



Removed and Pin Worms Nearly 



So In Treatments 



"Work carried on duiing the past year 

 and a half with hundreds of hens," at 

 the California agricultural experiment 

 station, writes Stanley L. Freeborn in 

 Science, June 15, "has shown that com- 

 mercial tobacco dust containing from li 

 to 2 per cent nicotine if fed in the mash 

 in quantities equalling 2 per cent by 

 weight of the latter over a period of one 

 month would remove from 98 to 100 per 

 cent of these worms (intestinal worms). 

 The results have demonstrated that from 

 80 to 85 per cent of the cecum worms are 

 removed by this treatment. The tobacco 

 dust must be mixed with the mash at 

 intervals not exceeding one week on ac- 

 count of the volatility of the nicotine in 

 the presence of air." 



The same investigator found that di- 

 luted nicotine sulfate in doses sufficient 

 to remove the worms was toxic to the 

 birds, except when combined with a 

 proper reagent and fed in capsules. This | 

 removes the concentrated tobacco product 

 out of the class of practical use. In the 

 tobacco dust treatment poultrymen must 

 make sure that thi.s material contains the 

 proper nicotine content, advisably 2 per | 



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