OLD AX MARKS IN TREES 



817 



Estabrooks Park, Near Tryon, N. C. 



THIS TRACT OF LAND, BOUGHT BY J. A. ESTABROOKS OF BOSTON IN 1894, AND SUBJECTED TO IMPROVEMENT CUTTING 

 ON FORESTRY PRINCIPLES WAS SOLD TWENTY YEARS LATER AT A HANDSOME PROFIT. MR. ES1ABROOKS' EX- 

 PERIENCE SHOULD BE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHERS 



Tyron County, where this park is cut over land on which second growth 



located, has a most effective forest fire is well established and which, with 



protective association, organized about a efficient fire protection, will some day be 



year ago, and described in a recent issue of considerable value, 

 of American Forestry. There is much 



OLD AX MARKS IN TREES 



By Avern Pardoe 



R. STRAIN'S letter in Ameri- 

 can Forestry for May, p. 659, 



1 V 1 reminds me of a discovery 



made a few years ago. I 

 was cutting a large white pine, about 3 

 feet in diameter and 150 feet high, 

 when about a third of the way through 

 the ax went into what I thought was 

 rot. The remainder of the cut was 

 made with the saw. We then found 

 the supposed unsoundness was in reality 

 a cup cut into the tree when it was 

 young and subsequently overgrown 



with new wood. There were over 

 eighty rings of new wood outside the 

 cup and about seventy rings had been 

 formed before the cup was made. It 

 was undoubtedly Indian work as eighty 

 years ago there were no white people 

 in the district. The purpose of the cut 

 must have been to gather gum for the 

 making and mending of canoes, etc. 

 The place was the shore of an island 

 in Lake Joseph in the Mishoka Dis- 

 trict, Ontario, Canada. 



