The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-26
HI SOLDIERS .......,
I ARE ALSO FARMERS
rrrNRy WOOD.

III THE FRFNGh
ss--Less than three months
French armies took from
s,mans ovcr l.0oo square
~ ii French soil. blasted.
81 and devastated as though
! sslf mad just passed over i
terrible senurge.
aader the magic touch Of
|eneh armies, who know both
fight and work. TINS thon-
Icgsre kilometers OF redeemed
il blossoming and blooming
rose,
person who passed through
~,strIet the day after the Ger
Iordes had passed. and who
there today, the change almost
hes human belief.
oonirast is 50 great that one
snted 10 believe that other Gle
man merely those of the
mind and the French arm
inferred into the transforms
Zone Jumps impnlsively to the
sion that Mother Nature her
ad lent a helping and lavish
h an effort to recompense the.
h district from the sufferings
undergone.
ering this sunny, smiling, YER
district for the first time since
erman deyastations, a persons
ktartIing question to himself is
Ae Germans really destroy any
Wasn't it all really a myth
kms humanity impossible that
hange there apparent could be
hi in less than three months
hing has been done toward re-
& the ruined towns. villages
krm houses. But the original
esion of unutterable devasta~
kreated by them is immensely
led by the fact that they are
amost hidden in waving grain
smiling vineyards and bios
& orchards.
French soldiers working I'M
direction Of French generals,
Know other things than mere
b. operations. have found the
of saving thousands OF trees,
fpughout the entire district de-
FED By The Germans there were
Binds of trees that the close
II of the French kept the Ger
from having time completely
down Instead. the Kultured
killers cut off a circle of bark
d the trunk of the tree, which
few days exposure to the sun
be sufficient TO kill peach.
Eapple. apricot and cherry trees
Dad been half u century attain
pc then actual productiveness.
kse trees presented the easiest
Pms. The wounds were merely
up like the wounds of a SOL
Thousands of army surgeons
Red Cross ambulance drivers
lreteher carriers assisted too
work. The circles where the
|had been cut away was first
b with a special grating ee-
and the entire wound then
ally bandaged up after with the
Ibandages that had been pre-
flor human limbs.
great was the number of trees
: way that the entire available
J of grating preparations was
y exhausted, Tar was then
a substitute and finally even
ny clay. Substitutes for sur
bandages also had 10 be found
the end it was discovered that
twisted about the dressed
J was as effective as anything
huch more serious problem of
presented itself where the tree
zen entirely cut or sawed down.
ere French genius also solved
'roblem.
Stumps p%rotuding usually two
feet from the ground were
ammed off in q scientific man
as TO conserve the sap and
u the death of the roots This
was then treated with the
~ paste and carefully ban
uil the cut down tree lying
SIDE hudded from the sap and
remained in II after being
IN Branches that showed
h'hbers Of buds and other
OIL exceptional Vitality were
off and finally grated into
reiuii prepared stump.
ay these CRAFTS are in fun leaf !
'osSom, the roots appear to
entirely saved and by
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