Show cork forests cork growing in spain and portugal is an extremely est remely precarious business and it demands considerable capital only the other day a raan in this city was seeking a partner with io to put into a cork forest in spain with a lease of years the bark is cut only in ten years but as the forests are very large the grower manages to obtain an annual crop this years crop is just beginning to come into the american market the trees having been barked in july and august crude cork comes over in great bales weighing from to pounds each the heat to which it is subjected in order to flatten out its curves also drives out most of the insects such as one woud naturally expect to find in bark As cork is too light to form a cargo of itself the cork carrying vessels also bring oil olives wine and heavy merchandise of various sorts new york sun |