Prevent Dutch Elm Disease

By Mother Earth News Reader Johnnie Williams Of New Albany and Indiana
Published on September 16, 2005

Twenty-seven years ago, I had a Dutch elm tree on our farm in
Orange County, Ind. It was about 15 inches in diameter and stood
about 100 feet from our house where we had a swing in its shade.
One morning, a redheaded woodpecker took some dead bark off a limb,
and I realized the tree was dying from Dutch elm disease. But I had
an idea to save it. My father kept a can of pure gum turpentine and

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