CONSER VA TION'S AD VER TISERS 



The Proper Care of Trees Is a Good 



Investment 



Jolin Uavey 



The Father of Tree Surgery 



CONSERVATION of the forests of our countr,v means 

 more than the mere stoppage of cutting down trees. 

 Without the proper care, trees are liable to die long 

 before they have lived the number of years Nature 

 designed that they should. On every hand we see trees 

 dying because they have not had proper care. 



Nature is a good mother and takes good care of her 

 children ; but sometimes she is too generous and tries to raise too 

 many. Fruit trees are overloaded with fruit, and trees in the forests 

 grow too thickly for proper development. Judicious thinning is the 

 remedy for both troubles. 



It took John Davey twenty years to master the science of knowing 

 how to thin the growth of trees in forests or on preserves, and his 

 knowledge is the foundation upon which we have built up our 

 i School of Practical Forestry. 



How the Davey Method Helps the Trees 



The careful, judicious and systematic removal of a portion of trees in a forest is of 

 incalculable benefit to the remainder. It gives the good trees a sufficient amount of growing 

 space for their best development, and the forest acquires a healthy, vigorous growth without 

 bemg robbed of any of its natural beauty — in fact, that beauty is enhanced by the greater 

 perfection to which the trees are allowed to grow, the better quality of their foliage, and the 

 naturally magnificent proportions they assume. 



This development affords trees in marked contrast to the spindly, weak specimen so 

 often seen in the wooded tracts of the country, where a half-dozen trees are fighting for 

 existence in the space one ought to be occupying. 



Commercially, the proper thinning of trees is practical economy. Often the thinnings 

 themselves not only yield a handsome revenue, but raise the actual production of wood in 

 the tract — sometimes more than 40%. 



The Davey Method Applied to Getting Trees for Timber 



The proper growing of timber in this country is a serious problem, and owners of forests 

 are working great harm to coming generations by allowing the reckless slaughter of trees 

 by lumbermen. These hnnbermen generally cut timber in such a way that high stumps, 

 merchantable tops, and damaged timber are left to rot and become a dead loss. 



One of our specialties is the supervision of lumbering operations. We mark the trees 

 to be cut and make rigid rules and regulations for the cutters. 



When a forest is thus cut, a few years' growth of the remaining trees completely hides 

 all trace of the cutting and the forest is finer than ever. 



Expert Kno'wiedge Is Necessary for the Saving of Trees 



All this requires expert work based upon years of actual experience. We employ the 

 greatest tree experts in the country. Don't allow your trees to sufifer at the hands of 

 incompetents — our service costs no more. 



We have equipped ourselves to render service of the very highest character to owners 

 of forests under the direct supervision of the leading professional forester of America, 

 and all work on larger forests and private preserves receives his personal attention. 



We will be glad to get into communication with those to whom our service will benefit 

 m any of the ways above mentioned. Our handsomely illustrated booklet H explains the 

 Davey methods of savings the trees. Write for it. 



The Davey Tree Expert Company 



(O Iterating Doxry's Schnol of Practical Forestry) 



Main Office, Kent, Ohio Eastern Office, Tarry town, N. Y. 



"The Home of Tree Surgery" (Address Nearest Office ) 



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