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From The Country
Gentleman, 1855 and 1858
To prevent rabbits from barking young fruit trees, give the body
of the young tree a thorough rubbing with soft soap. This not only
prevents the rabbits from barking them, but it protects them
against insects, takes all the rough scales off, softens the bark,
and renders them much more thrifty that they would be otherwise.
This simple recipe will be of vast value to the farmers in many
parts of the West. Greasing will prevent rabbits from barking
fruit trees but it will also injure the tree.
The Granite Farmer recommends stamping the snow hard round the
body of fruit trees to prevent mice from girdling them. When the
snow lays up light round the body of a tree, there is a cozy
little place for mice to make their nests in the old grass around
it. They do so. Soon hunger pinches, and rather than leave their
warm cozy quarters they eat of the bark from the trees, and soon
girdle them. Stamping the snow down about the trees, effectually
covers up the grass around the trunks, the mice can get at nothing
of which to make, their nests, and they scamper off to more
attractive quarters, leaving the trees untouched.
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