NEWS AND NOTES 



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Better Methods for Getting Turpentine 



Results of the efforts of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture to introduce in 

 place of the box system of turpentining, which 

 has been so destructive of the pine forests of 

 the south, the much less injurious cup and 

 gutter or cup and apron system, are evi- 

 denced in resolutions recently adopted by the 

 executive committee of the Consolidated 

 Naval Stores Company, a representative asso- 

 ciation of naval stores producers. The reso- 

 lutions were as follows : 



"Whereas the experiment made by the 

 United States government, as is shown by 

 the various bulletins from the Bureau oi 

 Forestry, as well as the experiments of in- 

 dividuals, and the practical results obtained 

 by the large number of operators, it appears 

 that the use of cups in the gathering of 

 crude gum yields much larger results in quan- 

 tity of spirits of turpentine produced, and a 

 very great increase of the grades of rosin, as 

 compared with the old system of boxing ; and 



"Whereas it appears that the use of cups 

 is to the interest of producer and factor, 

 tending to increase and perpetuate the life 

 of an industry in which we are engaged, 

 and to the general good and upbuilding 

 of which we pledge our hearty support; there- 

 fore, be it 



"Resolved, That we, the members of the 

 executive committee of the Consolidated 

 Naval Stores Company pledge ourselves to 

 use every influence at our respective com- 

 mands toward bringing about as near_ as 

 possible the universal use of cups as against 

 boxes in the production of naval stores. 



"Resolved further, That we now declare it 

 to be the policy of the Consolidated Naval 

 Stores Company to look with disfavor on 

 the boxing of any timber for turpentine 

 purposes in which the Consolidated Naval 

 Stores Company owns any interest." 



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Lumbermen and Conservation 



Lumbermen throughout the country are 

 taking the deepest interest in the second 

 meeting of the National Conservation Con- 

 gress, to be held in St. Paul September 5-9. 



Committed as to its practical conservation, 

 the lumber industry, which will be affected 

 more vitally than any other by the action 

 taken by the congress, should be alert to see 

 that the constructive conservation work of 

 the last two years is strengthened and con- 

 tinued at this meeting, and that no back- 

 ward step be taken. The deliberations of this 

 congress will have direct results in legisla- 

 tion, both national and state. — New York 

 Lumber and Trade Journal. 



Large Purchase in Labrador 



A New York syndicate headed by C. D. 

 Stanford and R. H. Wing, of Bangor, Me., 

 has acquired from the Anglo-American De- 

 velopment Company the timber land rights 

 in Labrador, consisting of 8,865,920 acres, 

 with an estimated stumpage of 30,000,000,000 

 feet. The terms of the lease require the 

 company to pay the government of New- 

 foundland an annual rental of $4 per square 

 mile for the first year, and $2 per square 

 mile for each succeeding year for fifty years, 

 with privilege of renewal for forty-nine 

 years. The company plans to cut the timber 

 so as to make the supply perpetual ; to estab- 

 lish pulp mills and market the product in 

 the United States and Europe. — Timberman. 



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Mining Company to Plant 



The Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company, 

 of West Virginia, has purchased a tract of 

 5,000 acres in McDowell County for the pur- 

 pose of reforestation. This land will event- 

 ually be planted with trees of various kinds 

 and the result watched with interest, as on 

 this experiment depends in a large measure 

 any future work along this line. The scarcity 

 of mine timbers is beginning to be noticed in 

 this section, and large timber companies are 

 constantly cutting off trees, none of which 

 are replaced. The action of the Pocahontas 

 Coal and Coke Company is one which can- 

 not be too highly commended, as it may 

 mean that this section will in the years to 

 come again be visited by the axes of the 

 woodsman and will not have to depend al- 

 together in the future on other parts of the 

 country for its timber — Huntington (W. Va.) 

 Advertiser. 



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A Correction 



In the July number of American Forestry, 

 on page 396, it was said of the section of 

 timber physics at the Forest Products Lab- 

 oratory, Madison, Wis. : "This section has 

 in hand at present a microscopic examination 

 of American woods for the purpose of devel- 

 oping a key to their identification based on 

 the structure of the wood. * * *" This 

 statement is' erroneous. The work described 

 is in progress, but it is carried on at the 

 Dendrological Laboratory in Washington, 

 D. C, under the supervision of the den- 

 drologist. • 



