The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Mice Damaging Trees 
Would you give some way of getting rid 
of the ground moles and mice which gir¬ 
dle trees? They girdled quite a few for 
us last Winter, and I found in working 
around the older trees last Summer that 
tiiey girdle the large roots and do quite a 
hit of damage underground. D. s. B. 
Big Pool, Md. 
We do not believe that the moles injure 
the roots or trunks of trees. The mole 
will seldom eat vegetable matter. There 
are several different varieties of mice 
which do great damage to trees. Some of 
them work r > fur underground that it is 
almost impossible to fight them success¬ 
fully. Keep all manure or trash away 
from the trees. The mice nost under 
such covering. Keep the soil around the 
trees well dug up, clear it away now and 
then if possible and hunt for nests of the 
mice. Scatter sulphur around where they 
work underground. In some cases the 
mice have been killed >»'J by boring sev¬ 
eral holes around the tree, pouring in bi¬ 
sulphide of carbon and covering quickly. 
The gas will work through loose and open 
soil and kill the mice. Wheat or corn 
soaked in a solution of strychnine and 
scattered around the tree will kill many. 
Wire protectors put around the trunk will 
keep off the mice which work above 
ground, but the great damage is done by 
the underground vermin. 
Toadstools on Lawn 
Can you tell me what will stop ‘‘toad¬ 
stools’’ from growing on my lawn? 
Maine. E. m. l. 
Toadstool is 
however, there 
a very indefinite term: 
are several mushrooms, 
commonly called toadstools, that appear 
in lawns. As a rule, an open sunny 
lawn, well clipped, is not much troubled 
by them. The sort most commonly seen 
in such a location is the fairy ring, so 
called from its habit of clustering in cir¬ 
cles; according to old-time superstition 
in Great Britain* this growth marked the 
place where the good people had been 
dancing, hence the growth was never dis¬ 
turbed. The fairy riii” i: a small, light- 
colored mushroom, thin iu flesh, but edi¬ 
ble ; when left, to decay its drippings 
leave an unsightly dark-colored ring in 
the lawn. It is no great trouble to pull 
it up whenever it appears, and though the 
mycelium, of which the mushroom itself 
is the spore-bearing part, still remains 
beneath, this plucking prevents the scat¬ 
tering of further spores. If there are 
bare .spots in the lawn they should be 
seeded, and the lawn encouraged by fer¬ 
tility and regular clipping, to make a 
thick sward. We have never found fungi 
persistent where the mushrooms were 
gathered, and the grass encouraged in 
vigorous growl. 1 . The same suggestions 
apply to other varieties besides the fairy 
ring. Sometime the highly poisonous 
Amanita is found among shrubbery on the 
edge of a shady lawn, and specimens of 
this dangerous fungus should always be 
removed and burned; it is not common, 
however, in such situations. 
Transplanting Cedars 
I wish to know how and when to 
transplant cedar trees, having several I 
wish to place on my lawn. I have tried 
it both Spring and Fall with no success. 
There seems to be something I do not do 
l ight. w. r. r. 
Blue Anchor, N. J. 
It is inferred that the cedars referred 
to are the native tie: ? commonly called 
cedar, but properly juniper. If they are 
wild trees, it is more difficult to move 
them than nursery specimens, because 
they have never been transplanted, and 
thus have a more rambling root system. 
In the nursery they are moved from time 
to time, thus inducing a compact ball of 
roots, which rc:uven less injury in mov¬ 
ing. It is quit* possible to move them 
satisfactorily with a large ball of earth, 
but Fall or curly pring are not desirable 
for th work. They have no really dor¬ 
mant eason, which .dels to the difficulty 
of tin work. They may be moved from 
about April to the middle of June. May 
beiu; usually a desirable time. Move 
with a large ball, covering with wet bur¬ 
lap while moving, > that the roots are 
not dried out; give . good soaking when 
planted, and add a mulch of old well- 
rotted manure t<> prevent the soil from 
drying out. It \s a good plan, where pos¬ 
sible, ' > give the top a good soak¬ 
ing _ * ich day luring dry weather 
until the tree or shrub seems to 
have taken hold, .. this prevents exoes- 
lany authorities give 
month to move ever- 
the work may be done 
soon as the ground b workable, and 
tips of the roots are white. Fall does 
sive evaporation. 
June as the bes. 
greens; others . y 
as 
tin 
not give time enough for the root system 
to repair damage before the ground 
freezes, and a hard Winter, with bright 
sunshine, causes « good-deal of damage 
( > newly-planted evergreens in any ease. 
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