UTILISATION OF KXISTING WOODLAND PRODUCE. 



Wood 



deslructivf Iv distilled 



Charcoal 



First distillate 



distil 



again 



Tar 



Acid and Alkali 



Lime 



neutralise and distil 



Grey Acetate 

 Solution 



Dilute Crude Wood 

 Alcohol. 



drie 

 waste 



dby 

 heat 



distil 

 to remo 

 matters 



twice 

 ve tarry 

 and water 



Grey Acetate 

 of Lime 



Crude Wood Alcohol 



(82 %) 



Messrs TurnbuU & Co., who have wood-distilling works at 

 Glasgow and at Balmaha (Loch Lomond), have kindly informed 

 me that the quantity of wood needed to be guaranteed annually 

 for a small factory of 6 retorts is from 1200 to 1500 tons' weight 

 (green). They pay from 9s. to los. a ton for the wood at 

 Balmaha, and los. to 12s. in Glasgow, the wood being in each 

 case delivered at the works. Oak, beech and birch are taken at 

 that price, and peeled oak is preferred to any other wood. If 

 the oak were ringed to free it from bark and season it, a 

 better price would be paid for it. The capital needed for a 

 6-retort factory would be from ^2000 to ^3000 ; and it would 

 give constant employment in the factory for 8 or 9 men — not 

 counting any of the employment given in the woods in felling, 

 and in transport and delivery to the factory. And Mr TurnbuU 

 kindly told me he would willingly co-operate, though not himself 

 prepared to erect new factories elsewhere than he has them at 

 present (Glasgow and Balmaha). 



IV. The Conifer Woods and Plantations, aggregating 



