

ragland] STUDY FOR GRADES SEYE.X AXD EIGHT 119 



3. How cut off these limbs? 

 What tools shall be used ? 

 Where make the cuts ? 

 How make the cuts? 

 4. How treat the wounds' 



3. Repeated. 



Conclusion : If the tree is less than twenty feet high prune to 

 one-half the height. If larger prune all limbs from ten to twelve 

 feet above the ground. A saw with narrow but strong blade 

 and pruning shears are said to be the best tools. When branch 

 to be cut is more than an inch in diameter make two cuts one 

 about a foot from the trunk and the other one close to the shoulder. 

 Paint wound with coal tar that has been heated to the boiling 

 point for twenty or thirty minutes. 



In Oxford very little damage is done by smoke and none from 

 gas. but many trees are severely damaged by overhead wires, 

 regrading, horses, and improper use of guy ropes by contractors. 

 Individual cases are cited and questions 4, 5, 6, and 7. are raised 

 in any order which seems best. 



4. How protect from horses? Ref. 7, pp. 129-132. 



Ref. 11, pp. 155-158. 

 Conclusion: Protect from horses by providing hitching 

 posts, putting up signs, "Do not Hitch Here," passing city ordin- 

 ances forbidding men to tie animals to the trees, but best of all 

 by providing all street trees with suitable guards. 



5. How protect from overhead wires? 



Ref. 7. pp. 125-127. 



Ref. 11, pp. 146-148. 

 Conclusion : The most effective way to protect from overhead 

 wires is to have ordinances passed requiring all public utilities 

 to lay underground wires. Where this cannot be done it is best 

 not to plant where damage is sure to come from overhead wires. 

 Trees already planted can be protected by denying to companies 

 the privilege of attaching wires to trees and insisting, wherever 

 possible that the devise suggested in reference 11 page 148 be 

 used for passing wires through trees. 



6. How see that no damage is done by guy wires? 



Ref. 7, pp. 127. 

 Ref. 11, pp. 155. 



