Show UNIVERSITY SAGES STILL ARGUE MERITS OF TREE DOCTORS DOPE The unIversity professors say they do donot donot not care to reply formal to the crit critIcism critIcism of their quarrel with Dr A AHenry AHenry Henry Miller the forest expert who has been treating the trees on the university campus for the various Ills that trees are re hell heir to Dr Car Cardiff lf says Fays that he took up the matter merely to keep the unIversity from being swindled and to Inform the pub public lie lic of the fraud that was being practiced practiced by the tree doctor and that havIng done thIs it matters matter little to him whether or not any indivIdual cares to pa pay 5 per pound for common salt for the treatment of congealed sap In the arterIes of trees Dr Cardiff thinks that the critic who signs himself is poorly informed as to Dr Millers claims for his tree cure Dr Miller is much I Imore more ambitious says Dr Cardiff than merely to cleanse the bark ot of parasitical mosses and noxious insects with which it is wont to be infected as a matter of fact he admitted read readily il ily that the trees on the campus are not suffering in those respects The tree doctors treatment as he ex cx I himself was for congealed sap in the arteries of the trees cau caused d by lack of circulation which is also conducive to the growth of germs of which driven tandem would not equal the thickness of a sheet of pa paper paper per perAs As to point that cork comes only from southern Europe and AlgerIa Dr Cardiff reiterated his statement that bark Is essentially the same in all woody plants In that it con contains contains a layer of cork In the Quercus suber the cork layer Is ot of unusual thickness hence that tree supplies cork for commercial purposes The objection which made mad to the chemical analysis by Dr DrW Drw W C Ebaugh th the university chemist is that it did not give the agent to dissolve the salt and lye which Dr Ebaugh discovered to be the Ingre Ingredients Ingredients of Dr Millers preparation Dr Ebaugh remarks The preparation which r I analyzed was a solid For use on the trees it was dissolved in wa water water ter and was In so dilute a solution that It h very little taste A bucketful of the solution thrown upon growing pea vines ines had no effect upon them |