Show HELP SWAYING YOUNG TREES much injury can be prevented by employing stakes as shown in illustration herewith many lany young trees through the tic nc tion of tile wind weave about and wear oh at opening in in the soil at their baise thus admitting water and air to their detriment one can keep a close watch and straighten up these loosened swaying trees filling in around them as necessary especially alter after strong winds which usually accod parry a rain that has made the ground soft and yielding but sometimes this is not mot done till incalculable damage has been done the trees the preventives illustrated are preferable to the cure writes M coverdell of iowa in farm and noine home in fig 1 tour four stakes are driven firmly in the ground and soft strings a run from stakes to tree trunk allowing only slight movement of trees in fig 2 one stake Is driven on the north side af of tree and one on west side stiff sticks a a are securely tied to stakes and trunk of tree sticks must be wrapped with cloth av 01 a a a 1111 21 where they comein contact wit with tree this also is a fine method of straightening up a tree with a crooked trunk one of the stiff sticks being bound to the trunk at a point considerably higher than the other and a third stick attached to the stake lower down on the trunk the length of these sticks will be determined by the crook of the treed tree they being arranged so as to pull it straight sticks should be forked to facilitate fastening to trunk of tree |