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Show Turpentine and Forests. You do not know tho turpontlno tap- H pers, but If you como to Florida you H will soon find them out. It is a curl- our business that will deliberately do- H stroy all tho forests of a half dozen states for a llttlo Immcdlato gain; nnd still more curious is tho lassitude that H allows the destruction to go on. The French have a method of tapping trees which gives a profltablo roturn and leaves tho trees practically uninjurod. In tliis way nn Industry is perpotuatod, but our Amorlcan tapping is anothor Tho trees are cut with h broad ax, hewing out great slices and leaving scars from which tho resin flows Into boxes nt the bottom of tho cut and Is scraped once a month Into casks. The cut Is repouted each yoar, and In six or seven years tho tr.ee Is exhausted. So go great forests of plno that stand SO to 100 feet high, leaving -us thou-sands thou-sands of acres of standing lumber k which will bo cut down by portablo Bawmllls. Tho end of It all is a hag- ' gard wasto. K. P. Powell, in Outing. |