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["breezyhill" <breezyhill@myway.com>]

My fruit trees are sited next to the hay field.  The neighbor puts up hay on 
a share basis, and forever there has been no problem.  Until today.  He ran 
into one of the apple trees and tore off a branch of about 5" diameter, 
ripping it OUT of the mother branch at the junction.  The wood is splintered 
three inches or more into the main branch--I pulled chunks out and can stick 
my finger in there.  I pruned it off as best I could, but it is so splintered 
and the bark around it is so loose I don't know how to help it heal.  He 
skipped a tree, and then skinned a pear tree, knocking off a chunk of bark 
about 1/3 of it's diameter, and abourt 5" tall.  Young tree.  What's the best 
way to "fix" it?  Have put up a temporary fence to warn him off the trees 
when he returns to ted and bale.  

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