Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1917 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

TREE SURGEON LIKE DENTIST Cavity Must Be Cleaned, Treated With Antiseptic, and Then Filled With Concrete. The treatment of cavities In trees, caused by decay, is not fundamentally different from that of dentistry, though the tree surgeon is not so much “down In the mouth” as the dentist. All decaying matter must be cleaned out, right down to solid living tissue. The cavity is then treated with an antiseptic to prevent further decay, and the whole (likewise the hole) filled with -concrete and in such manner as to exclude air as much as possible. The tree then begins to heal over the edges of the Wound So the concrete. Sometimes metal has been used for covering cavities and with good results. Elastic cement, asphalt and

sawdust, paraffin and sawdust, wood pulp and cement, excelsior and asphalt, tar with sawdust or oakum, wooden blocks, bricks, stones and a great variety of materials have been used for both filling and Covering and all are good if the work Is well done. The disinfectants used are copper sulphate, corrosive sublimate, formalin, bordeaux, carbolineum or creosote (these are best), coal tar and even kerosene. No matter which is used, the cavity should receive more than one treatment before being filled.or otherwise closed. "

Method of Pruning Large Limbs: (a) Tree Before Pruning; (b) the Same With Limbs Cut Close and the Scare Finished With Mallet and Chisel.