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THE TREE DOCTOR 



This was a fine old Cherry tree split at the point where it was 

 formerly "headed back." 



TREE SURGERY. 



There is one law that is said to hold good in animal life, 

 namely, "the life of any animal is capable of being five times the 

 period of its maturity." For example, a horse matures its size 

 at five, and may be a fairly good horse at twenty-five years. A 

 neighbor of mine has one thirty years old and he drives to town 

 with it. A man matures his body, substantially, at twenty, and 

 often lives to be an hundred years old. Sometime since, I photo- 

 graphed a Mrs. Freeman, at Red Bank, Pa., at the age of one 

 hundred and twelve years. She had "made garden" that season, 

 and also attended to "herding" the cow. She was quite bright, 

 and could accurately relate all the incidents of the early days of 

 that region. 



Photo 44 

 Split as a Result of Heading Back. 



