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indistinet upon the zine label, but the chief fault is 
its inconspicuousness. It requires much searching to 
find a zine label upon a large tree, and this objection 
holds with almost every practicable tree label which 
has been introduced, even with the three or four-inch 
pine labels which are common in the market. Patent 
zine and copper labels, which are cut from very thin 
metal, so that the record can be made by the impres- 
sions of a sharp point or style, have been tried at 
Cornell. “These pretty and so-called indestructible 
labels are furnished with an eyelet through which the 
wire passes. We were much pleased with these 
labels when we put them upon our orchard trees 
one fall; but the next spring we found that the 
metal had broken away from the eyelets, and nothing 
remained of them but a hole hung upon a wire.”* 
The Cornell label is the device shown at No. 3, in 
the illustration (Fig. 46). “We buy the pine ‘pack- 
age label,’ which is uxed by nurserymen, and which 
is 6 in. long and 1% in. wide. These labels cost, 
painted, $1.80 per thousand. These are wired with 
stiff, heavy, galvanized wire, much like that used for 
pail bales, and not less than eighteen inches is used 
upon each label. Hooks are turned in the ends of 
the wires before the labels are taken to the field. 
A pail of pure white lead, well thinned with oil, is 
taken to the field with the labels. The record is 
made with a very soft pencil, the label is dipped 
into the paint, the wire is placed about a conspic- 
*Bull. 61, Cornell Exp. Sta. 341. 
