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Show NEW SOURCE UF TURPENTINE V I Tree In Central India to Be Looked ft To for Supply of Really M. Good Quality. I i Turpentine oil and rosin am already 'Mi being produced on h commercial .sciile jBj In India by the distillation of pine ' jfl' rosin. A new source of supply ujdcli, j though compiratlvely Kin.ill, nnv be jf' vnlunlile, especially for Indian ni tins ( iJj now been found In frnnklnccr or 11 nllbunum. This ma'erlul Is nhiu'ned I 1 by the natives by milking Iru-ls.nui lu J f . the stems of IJoswelllu serratn, r free ' -8 widely dlstrlliuted throughout th dry ',? J rone forests of Central India. Tl a J at resinous substance which exudef 't-ein 7 tho ciiIh contains a kind of turpciuliie, 'i '' u rosin nnd a gum. Investigations of the methods of Rep-nrnttng Rep-nrnttng these constituents In n market- i J nhle form have been conducted since j 1012 by the forest nuthorltlca In India ' I In co-openitlon with the Impeiinl lo . ' stltutc. nnd tho results have been pub- -l llshed recently In n paper by R. R. Pearson, forest economist, nnd I'uran Singh, rheinlcal ndviser, at the Forcf1! Resenreh Institute, Dchra Dun. Tho general conclusion reached, bnsed on the results of numerous trials, la that the turpentine oil Is equal to g6oil ijunllty American turpentine oil, . . i |
