How do you know that's the problem?

I searched pictures on the internet. They match very, very well. I also took an 'exacto' knife last fall and cut out a square around the oozing section. I pulled back the bark and found a lump under the cambium. I cut that out as well, back to clean cambium. I sprayed with copper and fungicide The wound healed (turned brown) over the winter and started oozing again this past March (there are three wounds). What does it sound like to you? Thanks, Mrs. G

I don't know. Oozing can be caused by so many different things.

I have cytospora canker on my spruce trees, and it's the kind of thing that you can slow but never stop.

I'll give it one more day and post pics tomorrow. I've had the tree for six years and this will be the first year it has a 'real' crop. Its killing me. Mrs. G