Show twenty year supply of pine the wood chemistry section of the forestry bureau has been giving some attention to the subject of the production of turpentine from yellow waste it Is stated that for the recovery of turpentine from waste wood the steam distillation process Is far sit sir perlor to destructive distillation making a more uniform crude turpentine and usually a higher grade refined product the wastage from the yellow pine cut each year would yield as much turpentine as the entire pres prea ent annual output in this country with a value of at the present rate of cutting the supply of longleaf long leaf yellow pine in the south will be ba practically exhausted in 20 years but the methods of exploitation now in use convert only about halt the tree into market product |