176 ANIMAL COMPETITORS 
often used for poultry netting. For cottontail rabbits 
rolls 18 inches wide are recommended, but as a protec- 
tion against jack rabbits wider material is safer. The 
wire is cut into 1-foot lengths, and one of these sec- 
tions is rolled into shape about the trunk of each tree, 
the ends being brought together and fastened at sev- 
eral places by means of the wire ends. No other 
fastening is needed. The wire is not in contact with 
the trunk and may be left on the tree permanently. 
It will probably last as long as the tree requires pro- 
tection, and the cost of material need not be over 134 
cents for each tree. For young evergreens, material 
of the same kind 1 foot wide and cut in 114-foot 
lengths will give excellent protection. 
““Tf trees are to be protected from both rabbits and 
mice, materials of closer mesh must be used. Wire 
window-sereen netting is excellent for the purpose, 
and the cost, when permanence of protection is con- 
sidered, is not great. 
“‘Veneer and other forms of wood protectors are 
popular and have several advantages. When left 
permanently upon the trees, however, they furnish 
retreats for insect pests. For this reason they should 
be removed each spring and laid away until cold 
weather. While the labor of removing and replacing 
them is considerable, they have the advantage, when 
pressed well into the soil, of protecting from both 
mice and rabbits. They cost from 60 cents per hun- 
dred upward, and are much superior to building 
paper or newspaper wrappings. The writer has 
known instances where rabbits tore wrappings of 
