THE TREE DOCTOR 



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you see that death had set in and that the bark had peeled off. 

 In a few years the stub rots out, leaving a hole, as you see in 

 the sample to the right. In Photo 5 you have a case where the 

 cut was made right but the wound was not dressed. Decay set 

 in and the rot worked down more than two feet. 



In every branch there is what we call a "shoulder." It is a 

 prominent ridge. To make it plain (in Photo 6) the saw has 

 been run in back of the "shoulder," and a piece of paper 

 laid in. The proper place to make the final cut is about an inch 

 further out. In dropping a large branch it is well to cut the 

 branch off some way out, to get rid of its weight, then make the 

 finishing cut in the proper place. 



Photo 8 



Tree shown in Photo 7 Five Years Later. 



