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bark dries up and the tree dies. If light and 
air are excluded, new bark will form and the 
wound quickly heal over. To facilitate the 
healing process, it is important that wounds be 
covered as soon as possible. All that is needed 
is to mound up the soil about the trunk of the 
tree high enough to cover the wound, and the 
covering should remain all summer. 
MOUSE CAUGHT IN A GUILLOTINE TRAP. 
This is the simplest, cheapest, most humane, and on the 
whole most effective trap for catching and killing rats, wild 
mice or house-mice. 
