tice on boxed timber ; the puller passes easily between the gutter and 

 the streak. 



Dipping. The tool used for dipping the cups is a steel blade 8 inches 

 long, 2 inches wide at the lower end, and 4 inches at the upper end. 

 This may be made from an old saw and fastened to a wooden handle 

 extending a little over the upper end of the blade. Where the cups 

 have oval bottoms, the lower end of the dipping knife should be rounded 

 to fit them. 



In dipping, the accumulated scrape is first loosened from the gutters 

 by means of this dipping knife and pushed down into the cup. The 

 cup is then removed from the nail and the resin is cut from the walls 

 by a circular movement of the knife and emptied into the bucket. 



Cost of equipment for one crop. 



Cups (10,500) at H cents each __ _ $131.25 

 (Jutter strips (1886 pounds galvanized iron, No. 29 gage, 



cut. in 2-inch widths) __ 103.27 



Cutting and shaping gutters _. 4.00 



Nails (6-penny wire) _ 1.05 



Freight charges (estimated) 30.00 



Labor at trees.- 80.00 



Total- --__-_ $349.57 



The prices given are those at which responsible firms will at present 

 furnish the material required. If the cups be placed on boxed timber 

 the item of labor may be reduced to $30, as the chipping of the previous 

 season furnishes, without further labor, the flat surfaces for the gutters, 

 which slide more readily into the incisions on old faces than into those 

 on freshly exposed sap wood. The estimated freight charges are based 

 upon a material reduction in freight rates recently offered by the princi- 

 pal railroads in the turpentine belt. a 



a The following railroads have agreed to haul the equipment as Class P matter 

 in carload lots, 24,000 pounds minimum carload: 



Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, 



Central of Georgia Railway Company, 



Georgia Railroad, 



Georgia, Florida, and Alabama Railway Company, 



Georgia, Southern, and Florida Railway Company, 



Macon and Birmingham Railway Company, 



Seaboard Airline Railway, 



Southern Railway Company, 



Western and Atlantic Railroad, 



Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad Company. 

 This rate became effective on November 10, 1902. 



