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Show HOMME iMIflPSPIt REMOVING A LARGE BRANCH Cut Should Be Made Parallel With Main Stem From Which One la To Be Removed. (By W. S. THORNBT5R, Washington.) In the removal of large branches from old or bearing trees always make the cut parallel with the branch or main stem from which the one is removed. re-moved. This frequently means a larger wound than it would make if the cut Is made at right angles to the limb that is to be removed, but such wounds will heal quicker and are less injurious to the tree than the much smaller ones that leave the collar of the branch to be covered with healing tissue. Do not hesitate to remove large useless or superfluous limbs from trees, but always make smooth, i a a 4 t 6 0 m m : f; i.; v-- -L Mk 1 9 Cutting Off Large Branches. 1. Proper method of removing a large branch. 2. Branch broken down from cut wrongly made. 3. Dead stub left to rot back. 4. Stump of branch left by bad pruning. 6. Same three years later. 6. Decay' resulting from bad pruning. prun-ing. 7. Cemented cavity. 8. Tinned cavity. 9. Burlaped cavity. clean cuts with a saw, and if necessary neces-sary to prevent splitting the stem or peeling the bark, make two cuts the first from six to twelve Inches out from where the limb Is to be finally cut off. Nothing can be applied to the wound to hasten the healing. |