Show TuriFiilln IVrim The above reference to turpentine farms may not ho understood nt tile north In south Georgia and Alabama n tow years ago was found ono of Ibo largest pine forests on tile continent It Is now cut up by thousands of what are known na turpentine forms A tract or from 600 to 8090 acres Is lake up by purchase or entry The first la 1 tmcnts nnd Improvement aro In the way of tills for the manufacture ot turpentine resin pitch and other byproducts by-products During winter n squad ot I axmcn Is tent out to box Uio pine tree Tho box Is cut three to four Inchcsdf In cup form and extends from ono third to halt way around the tree Tllo gum begins to run Into the boxes In Icbruury nnd Is I gathered from day today to-day as the cups fill When the nrol boxing begins lo How freely the now wood above Is hewn off giving a new flow This Is I repeated until the cut surface extends upward 1 from two to four feet Tho next season tile cuppinG cup-ping Is made on the other side of tile tree This exhausts the supply anti the third season the logs aro cut for lumber That Is the program with the thou sands of combined turpentine real pitch nnd lumber plants Hut hllll drool of turpentine stills are run lIy those who tap tire Trees In a way 10 keep up life In Ibo trees for a number ot years Over millions of acres wo ceo tha cutoff lands where only Iho worthless tree are left and wo rarely see n plnn trco that has not been halt killed or wholly killed by the turpe fiord men During the few past yearn the main supply ot what la l known IUI naval supplies hove come from tilts great pine forest Indeed the supply has exceeded the demand anti prices PM hate run donn It > belle tin iort of pro it fiction The KOOKP that hna been laying lay-ing the golden Plillo will soon he dead 1rhal no great forest nf the world laa been so rapidly ilmtro > ed and I ho ntellltent owners of orange onliarda In Florida no not hesitate lo say that lib unprecedented fp > ete of thin winter is to n larger extent due to the dextrose flail of this protective Twit on the north |