20 I) A VET'S PRIMER 



Now for the work of the "tree butcher." Pupils 

 you have legs, feet, toes, arms, hands, fingers, nose, 

 and ears. None of us are so presuming as to say 

 that the Creator made a mistake and supplied too 

 many members ; possibly if we had two more pairs 

 of hands and arms we could use them, at times. 

 The same power that created us made the trees, 

 and do we think for a moment that we could improve 

 on the plan ? Then why do we mar the beauty of the 

 trees? 



This lovely oak was ruined by telephone men. 

 They have cut through and spoiled hundreds of thou- 

 sands of trees in this country. I saw where the " feed 

 wires" of an electric car company had been notched 

 out, so that they could "see-saw" into a main branch 

 of a large maple tree, and (when I saw it), they had 

 nearly burnt it off. 



There are members of those companies who have 

 trees, and would not purposely have such destructive 

 work done, but there are all kinds of men employed to 

 do the work, and many of these know or care but little 

 or nothing how the work is performed. We want, 

 therefore, ever,y child in this country to learn the proper 

 way to take off branches, and then to be on the lookout 

 for tree vandals and report them at once to the proper 

 authorities. They are now putting telephone wires 

 under ground, in the cities, and the proper thing to 

 do, in the country, would be to build the lines out in 

 the open fields, away from the trees. If the companies 



