Excerpt from Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College: Bulletin No, 91 Injuries to Shade Tress From Electricity, August, 1903The adverse conditions with which shade trees have to contend, in cities and towns, ' constitute a serious drawback to their development.A considerable amount of damage occurs to shade trees by wires, causing abrasions, destruction of limbs and leaders, burnings, and necessitating much injudicious pruning.The greatest amount of damage caused to trees by alternating and direct currents is by local burnings. The higher the electro motive force (voltage), the more injury is likely to occur to trees.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.