452 



LOGGING 



The cost of installing a crop of this character as estimated by 

 the inventor ^ is as follows : 



Cups (10,500 at ij cents) 



Gutter stripping (1,886 pounds of galvanized iron, 29 



cut in 2-lnch widths) 



Nails (6-penny wire nails)^ 



Freight charges (estimated)' 



Labor at tree 



Cutting and shaping gutters 



131-25 



Total . 



$349-57 



The cost of cutting and cornering boxes is from $250 to $300. 



Chipping. — The chipping and pulling of a crop of cups is 

 performed in the same manner as for boxes. 



Dipping. — The dip is col- 

 lected in barrels, but the form 

 of receptacle on the tree re- 

 quires some modification of the 

 box method for dipping. The 

 dipper passes from tree to tree 

 with his bucket, lifts the cups 

 from the nail and by means of 

 a trowel-shaped paddle scoops 

 the gum out of the cup, which 

 is then replaced on the tree. 

 When a tree bleeds freely extra 

 cups are kept hanging on nails, 

 and when the chipper passes 

 on his rounds he replaces full 

 cups with empty ones, hanging 

 the former on nails on the 

 lower part of the tree. By 

 this means no resin is lost . The 

 same price per barrel is paid for 

 dipping both cups and boxes. 



Fig. 132. — A Herty Cup on a "Year- 

 ling" Crop. The cup was raised at 

 the beginning of the second season. 



1 A New Method of Turpentine Orcharding, by Chas. H. Herty. Bui. 40. 

 U. S. Bureau of Forestry, p. 31. 



^ Zinc nails have since been substituted. 



3 Shipping weight approximately 25,000 pounds. 



