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hig. 9. Tree which showed ant injury on the butt, butted off unnecessarily leaving 
a stick too short for a pole. Left in the woods although 
it would have made several good posts. 
Fig. 10. Illustrating the custom of first cutting a pole to length and then butting off 
for defect, a practice which results in much waste. Two feet from 
the butt of this tree would have cleared it. 
