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from mice. This netting may be purchased in bales of 150 lineal 

 feet and cut and shaped just as described for the wire cloth. The 



present price of the 24 inch wire 

 is $3.30 per bale. This style of 

 protector would, therefore, cost 

 $2.20 per hundred. These are 

 very neat and sightly and do 

 admirably for cultivated orch- 

 ards, or wherever the method of 

 culture or the environment does 

 not favor the presence of field 



Fig. 9. Small meshed poultry netting. 



mice. In combination with a slight 

 mound of soil about the base of the 

 tree, mice will rarely prove trouble- 

 some. 



STANDARD POULTRY NETTING 



It often happens that the planter 

 of a few trees has at hand a quant- 

 ity of old poultry netting of standard 



or 2-inch mesh. From this stock in hand quite serviceable protect- 

 ors can be made by cutting out sections 18 x 24 inches in size and 

 rolling them around a section of broom handle as described. The 

 mesh being so large, the pieces are cut six inches wider than 



Fig. 10. Standard poultry netting. 



