OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 208 



COMBINATION WIRE CLOTH AND CORN STALKS 



This form will appeal to the most exacting. The stalks protect 

 the stems from rabbits, while the 8-inch wire cloth cylinders, cut 

 from the same material in Fig. 8, completely baffle the mice even in 

 badly infested orchards. The wire cylinders should he forced down 

 two or three inches in the ground. These cylinders are formed from 

 sections of wire cloth 8x12 inches in size. Cost, about 1 cent each. 



THE SHORT, WIRE CYLINDER 



When trees have attained the age of six or seven years they are 

 usually beyond the period of injury by rabbits. We then have to 



protect only against mice. The short, 

 galvanized wire cloth cylinder alone, 

 well imbedded in the soil about the 

 base of the tree, is quite sufficient even 

 in badly infested orchards, except 

 when unusually deep snows come and 

 lie a considerable time on the ground. 

 It may then be well to tread down the 

 snow immediately about the trees 

 to prevent mice burrowing about and 

 feeding upon the stems above the 

 protectors. 



THE SIMPLE PAPER CYLINDER 



In combination with the soil oi- 

 cinder mound, paper wrappers of 

 different kinds are temporarily effect- 

 ive in protecting from rabbits; but 

 these protectors should be removed 

 during the summer season because ol 

 the fact that they afford excellenl 

 places for concealment of the larvae of 

 certain insects and for the woolly 

 aphis. 



A simple paper cylinder formed of 

 Fig, 16, The simple paper cylinder, ordinary printing, wrapping or even 



newspaper, will serve well for a single 

 winter. The picture above shows clearly the manner of applying 

 and tying- in place. All paper wrappers should extend a little below 

 the surface of the soil at the base. 



