Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — Trees Girdled by Mice. [ARTICLE]

Tr ees G irdled by Mice.

At a meeting of the Northern Illinois lldrticultural S«H'ie:y, D. B. Wair, of Im.-n. reais ptqxr on ' Saving Girdled -Fruit Trees.'' He said he had over a | hut.fired, seven years planted, completely i girdled by mice. There had been for | i-ome time a heavy Snow upon the ground, ami mice being plenty, and in a starving -condition, with nothing else to eat. they at-- all the bark from the trees as far a* they could reach, some of them for a foot up and down all round ; and portions of the sup-wood in some places half an inch deep. As soon the damage was discovered. which was on the first thawing days, lie banked the snow around the trees, and as soon as the soil thawed, he banked that a foot high about the trunks. This was all the attention they received ; and to-day they have all the damaged parts covered by almost as thick a coating of bark as the uninjured portion of the trees. When the girdling is done high up on the trees, banking with soil will be impracticable. If the wounded parts are too high io reach by banking, clay may be bound on l with u bandage._ The. sooner the surface is protected the better. The death of the tree is caused by the seasoning of the sapwood.

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