PROTECTION OF FRUIT TREES FROM RDENTS 



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BUILDING PAPER 



A good grade of building- or "sheathing" paper is, of course, 

 preferable to wrapping or newspaper for tree protection. According 

 to grade, these heavier wrap- 

 pers should cost but from 

 one-tenth to one-fifth of a cent 

 each or 10 to 20 cents per 100, 

 if the paper be purchased by 

 the roll of 500 square feet. 

 These may be put on the trees 



Fig. 18. Combination wire cloth 

 and building paper. 



Fig. 17. Building paper. 



in the form of a plain cylinder, or 

 the paper may be out into strips 

 from four to six inches wide and 

 wrapped spirally about the stem to 

 the desired height, beginning at the 

 base and fastened with twine in 

 the usual way. 



superiority in the plan of spiral 



There are two points of 

 wrapping, over the cylindrical protector; first, a crooked bodied tree 

 can be closely and neatly covered (see picture above); second, the 



