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"Baby rabbits — come and see!" Parting - the bluegrass and 

 white clover she exposed four little, frightened balls of fur shrink- 

 ing down in the small, grass-lined excavation in the ground. 



Fig. 1. "Baby rabbits — Come and 



Here, indeed, was an orchard problem! Within five feet. of the 

 base of the almost priceless tree and surrounded by other young 

 trees of value, was a quartette of youthful representatives of a 

 formidable orchard pest. "To kill or not to kill" might naturally 

 become the question in the mind of the orchardist under these 

 circumstances. Should the enemy be diminished by four at a single 

 stroke, or should the tree be -protected and the enemy spared? The 

 question in this instance was submitted to American girlhood for 

 decision. 



