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practices intensive forestry thus put on the same footing as the man 

 who does not, so far as taxation is concerned. Otherwise the man who 

 shows sufficient initiative and public spirit to manage his holdings so 

 as to secure the maximum return from them is really penalized to a 

 certain extent for doing so. The proposal is probably of chief interest 

 to foresters in this country because of its recognition of the soil and 

 the growing stock as distinct parts of the forest capital; of the vital 

 importance of maintaining the national supply of wood by the practice 

 of forestry; and of the effect of the system of taxation employed in 

 doing this. 



S. T. D. 



Note sur I'opportunite d'une refonne de la methode d'imposition des proprietes 

 boisees. Revue des Eaux et Forets, Vol. LV, No. lo, October i, 1977. 



UTILIZATION, MARKET, AND TECHNOLOGY 



With the tremendous increase in freight rates 

 Naval Stores to Sweden, the gathering of naval stores in that 

 Production country has developed into an industry producing 



in more than 5,000 tons of resin annually. German 



Germany terms were formerly used in Swedish literature 



upon this subject ; but G. Lundberg, a Swedish 

 government investigator, refuses to use these longer, and coins the fol- 

 lowing terms: "Harts" — rosin; "Flytande kada" or "balsam" — resin; 

 "Tore" — resin in pitch streaks; "Skrapkada" — scrape; "Vilokada" — 

 natural resin exuding from stems; "Becka" or "Kadbecka" — turpen- 

 tine orchard; "Katning" — cornering or cutting of faces; "kantkat- 

 ning" — chipping. The purpose of the article is to present for the 

 benefit of Swedish operators the methods used in Germany. 



Germany uses 100,000 tons of rosin annually. At the outbreak of 

 the present war, however, there were no stocks of rosin in that country. 

 From i860 to 1870 about 200 tons of rosin were produced in Sachsen, 

 but immediately before the war no naval-stores industry existed in Ger- 

 many. After the war had begun, the gathering of natural resin became 

 a small industry, and intensive experiments in turpentine orcharding 

 were at once started. In the fall of 19 16 a small amount of spruce 

 rosin was imported from Sweden, but in the spring of 191 7 Germany 

 had succeeded in producing a sufficient supply of rosin and turpentine 

 for her own use. 



The gathering of the resin is controlled by a government bureau, 



