BIRDS AND CHERRIES.
TO TIIK EDITOR OF ''THE I'RESS." Sir,—May I suggest a simple aud profitable way of euchring tho birds? Cover tho trees completely over with butter cloth (not scrim), fastening it loosely round the trunk: no bird can possibly get insido if this i£ properly done. Some years ago I covered two trees iu this manner at a total coat of £3 or £i. A season or two after, 1 sold the crops for close upon £12, and in other years for an average of, say, £7 per annum. Tho material, with care, will last thrco years. The quality of tho fruit is also improved. When picking, under tho clotn, at 5 a.m. after a night's heavy dew, it was liko being in a hot-house, this causing tho fruit, to fill out and ripen splcndidlv.—Yours, etc., LEONARD W. BLAKE. December 3rd, 1915.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15453, 4 December 1915, Page 7
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