The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-10
1t Pays to Trim the Little Pines
Try -Alfrnd .Rnrkn1

In response to your urgent invita-
tion, | am going to write you about
my experience in trimming small pine
trees and venture some opinions
about it. ] have, as you know,
summer place over in Concord. /
am there all ! can be in the summer
time and when | am not | am think
ing about it. at every opportunity
either winter or summer. 1t has
furnished me the most substantial
enjoyment of my life and do doubt Is
a very decisive factor in preserving
my health and keeping me active so
long
Over quite part of our 255 acres
there is a growth of pine and IN the
area that was formerly pasture or
old fields there has been a lovely new
crop of them spring up. have
found that ten dollars will trim one
hundred pine trees three times at an
interval of two years, which is the
desired period which should inter
vene between pruning, Let's just
suppose that you should trim one
hundred trees in that way and that
you had a lot Of another hundred
separated by short distance from
the first, which you left untrimmed.
Surprising ii man came along ten
years from now and you wanted to
sell him one or both of these lots
You and | know we'll enough that he
would give at least one hundred dol
lars more for the trees that had been
trimmed than he would for the ones
that had not had that attention. 1t
is perfectly plain that an investment
of $40 for 100 trees would pay for
itself ten times over at the end of a
ten year period
| had quite an argument with
friend about this pine tree business
and it's taken me pretty near six
years to convince him. Six years
ago | selected two trees in Il row
which are not far from my cottage.
| took one and gave il it's first trim
ming and the other one | trimmed lat
er. At the end of two years | gave
that first tree second trimming and
then two years afterwards still an
other similar treatment Then |
took my friend and showed him the
result The branches of the earlier
pruning were all grown over so that
the trunk WAS smooth and clear.
Where the second lot of branches
had been cut off the bark had just
about grown out to the end. or
course about the third trimming
where the tree had commenced to
grow out on the stubs OF the branches
it had nowhere near covered them up
| then gave my friend a lecture on
pine trees and showed him that the
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Inst few words in regard to the
rrnning NJ tho nincs which think
i =, o" nnrroc, First nrnno in tho fall
mr. carly enrinp Use a saw instead
of an axe as limbs broken off are ant
to leaye a hoIe in the tree whore wat
or can stand and cause bad piece
in the wood Some complain that
the trees die after pruning. This is
caused bv cutting them to hard at
first. Trim up TO the long limbs the
first time. In tho life of a pine tree
cav forty yoars after pruning your