REPORTS FROM NURSERYMEN. 



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under the snow. I think they will eat the bark from any kind of young trees. 

 The damage hs serious. — Montpelier. Vt., Nov., 1886. 



Voles sometimes gnaw young apple and pear trees, mostly in winter ; in sum- 

 mer also where red clover grows about the trees. The loss is serious. 



—Salem, Ohio. 1886. 



Meadow mice are injurious to meadows and pastures by cutting the sod in 

 winter. We had an invasion of them in the winter of 1864, when they killed 

 grape vines, raspberries, and crab-apple trees 5 inches in diameter. 



— Stoughton, Wis., 1887. 



Field mice are destructive to grain crops. Their depredations are mostly 

 confined to the consumption of grain, but the injury by them depends upon the 

 nut crop ; if this is plentiful they do not disturb grain, or corn chiefly, but if 

 there is a scarcity of nuts, they make incursions on the fields of corn, doing 

 considerable damage. —Columbia, Conn., Sept., 1887. 



The majority of the preceding reports refer to the common meadow 

 mouse (31. pennsylv aniens) and its subspecies, but some of them from 

 the Middle West undoubtedly include references to the prairie vole 

 (M. ochrogaster) , which is more numerous there. Most of the destruc- 

 tion to potatoes and stored vegetables may be attributed to pine mice. 



REPORTS FROM NURSERYMEN AND ORCHARDISTS. 



Early in March, 1906, a circular letter of inquiry asking for infor- 

 mation in regard to damages by field mice was sent to more than a 

 thousand representative nurserymen and fruit growers in the United 

 States and southern Canada. Up to April 10. 1906, replies returned 

 number 520, of which a summary is presented in tabular form. 



Damages by field mice, as reported by nurserymen and fruit growers. 



State or province 



Maine 



Mew Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts... 

 Rhode Island . . . 



Connecticut . 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania ... 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia ...'. 



West Virginia . . . 

 North Carolina.. 

 South Carolina.. 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Tennessee 



Kentucky 



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V o 



,£> <3 



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a M 



3 







& 



£ 



2 



1 



1 



1 



11 



12 

 1 



11 



7 ' 



4 



34 



24 



9 



12 



6 



H 



27 



22 



5 



3 





3 



12 



6 



6 



3 



1 



9 



6 



2 



4 



10 



6 



4 



1 







8 





2 



5 



«3 



2 



9 





5 



3 





1 



18 



c 

 a 

 ■/. 





2 



1 





' 1 



3 

 2 





7 



10 



3 





1 





3 



6 



1 



20 



7 





3 



8 





13 



11 

 2 





3 



4 



3 





1 



2 





4 



2 



i 







6 





1 



4 





1 



2 











9 





2 



8 



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§125 

 100 



805 



460 



8,275 

 750 



3,100 



35 



350 

 3,000 



25 



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