Show turpentine and forests you dp do not know the turpentine tappers aers but it bod come 0 to o I florida you will soon find them out it la Is a curious business that will deliberately destroy nil all the forests of a halt half dozen states for a little immediate gain and still more inore curious Is the lassitude that allows the destruction to go on the r reach french have a method of tapping trees which gives a profitable pron tabla return aud and loaves leaves the trees practically uninjured jurod in this way an industry la is perpetuated but our american tapping to Is another thing the trees are cut with a broad bread ax hewing out great slices and leaving scare from which the resin flows into boxes at the bottom of the cut cit and to is scraped once a month into casks the cut Is repeated each year rind and in ili at six or seven years yeara the tree to 1 elli exhausted dusted so go great forests of vine pine that stand SO go to feet high leaving us thousands of teres acrea of standing lumber which will be ct down by portable sawmills the end of it all is a haggard waste E 1 t powell ln outing |