The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-12-02

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great care, can be expended 10 live.
1T is not often that we have to put
in such a big filling as this ! have
showed you, or that over there in the
school yard just across the street,
where the cavity was at the very base
OF the tree itself and had to be treat
ed with even more care hal this one.
1--WE dug down for a deep pit into
the roots of that elm, and have it
now so that it will stand for many
years, whereas, if 1t had not been
treated 1t must have become danger
GUS, in its exposed position, in a few
years.
You see, there are three layers be-
fore we get to the wood of the tree,
the two outer bark layers and the
'campian layer which lies close to
the wood, and through which the sap
flows to nOurish the tree. AS this de.
velops the bark rolls toward the outer
point of circumstance, each year
rolling a bit closer, till ip time it
gradually closes up the opening that
has been made. But the inner bark,
or 'campian layer is the one that
does the growing, and as long as that
is not destroyed there is hope for the
tree. We have to dig out every speck
OF decayed or affected wood as thor
oughly as If 1t were the decayed stuff
in a tooth, and then very carefully
fill with our special mixture of &C.
ment, which is mixed of a peculiar
consistency to be just right. Some
times we have to mix it over a second
or wen a third time, to get it just
right. ,
THE tin patching we use where the
hole is smaller, or where the cavity
is not so deep and it is merely neces,
sary to protect the cavity, which has
been thoroughly cleaned out and
given a coating of tar preparation to
keep out insects and cleanse the sur
face more completely. These tin
patches are tackled on around the
edge of the opening, and when coated
with tar are good to protect the holes
till the trees can close them up nat
urally.
"One of the hardest things we have
to contend with is the curiosity of
people who can't let things alone.
On the big fill which we made close
to the ground in the schoolhouse yard
boys had kicked and SCARED the sur.
face of the fill with their shoes be
fore it had time to set hard, spelling
an otherwise n~ice-looking bit of work
so far as looks go. When | came
to fill the big elm cavity on Ham.
mond street | put ropes all about it
to suggest that people let it alone,
yet the very first evening it was alone
some man all and stuck his finger
into it to see if it was hard. OF
course it wasn't, and the next morn.
ing that finger mark was there. spoil.
ing the perfection of a good Job.
1--WE have some exciting experiences
although We nave been verr fortunate
in their results. The other day | saw
Ryan get a flip from electric contact
that came neal being serious, but with
presence of mind he caught the crotch
of the tree and didn't fall. He was
away up on an arm of a pole which
thrust itself up into the foliage, cuttine
off a limb. To protect the bark from
stripping when we cut off a branch
we made two cuts, the first out a few
feet from the crotch. This had beer
done, and as he put the saw to make
the second cut, standing on the pole
but careful to touch no wires, ht
placed his hand against the end of tho
stump, wet with the flowing sap. In
stantly his saw flew and he was liter
ally thrown into the tree, but hi
landed In a crotch about four feet of
and was soon over it. Had he been II
contact with a wire, making a com
plete circuit through his body. 1
must have killed him instantly"
Bangor is almost entitled to b,
, called the Forest City. To stand a
the top of the standpipe in the high
lands and look out over the city II an
pears one vast carpet of green, will
! here and there a break, but mainly
/ showing evidences OF civilization onl,
by the red chimneys peeping up
! among the leaves.
Ao for no Draajuo,.uhfo ux.