Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — REMARKABLE TREE SURGICAL OPERATION. [ARTICLE]

REMARKABLE TREE SURGICAL OPERATION.

Edward Fontaine, a tree surgeon of Charlottesville. Va., has, according to Wand Farmer, coxripleted the greatest tree surgical operation ever attempted anywhere, and this has been done for Mr. John Armstrong Chaloner of Merrle Mills, rhe tree Is Ted oak and is possibly three hundred years old. It is 24 feet in circumference, two feet above tlie ground, with a diameter of eight feet, four Indies in its widest part. The cement filling was carried up the tree 33 feet from the surface - and a cement leg or root was imbedded five feet into the ground to support the tree in heavy winds. Tlie material used was six wagonloads of sand, 12 loads of fiehr stone, 28 bags -bt cement, 14 iron straps to re-enforce the concrete, 44 eyebolts and a roll of galvanized wife. So far the operation lias been successful.