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ready and willing to supply him. The cow-tree 

 gives abundant quantities ; it has not only the exact 

 appearance but all the qualities of cow's milk. 



Certain trees act as churns. The natives of the 

 Niger gather immense quantities of butter from the 

 butter-tree. It abounds in great quantities and is 

 likely to become an article of commerce. In the 

 olden days the slave-dealer dreaded it more than 

 anything else. It tended to bring his country into 

 touch with civilisation, and once the King of Da- 

 homey ordered its extermination. It was annually 

 burned by royal decree, but it annually sprang up 

 again. 



It must be confessed that nature also has her 

 wine! The wine-palm of Western Africa yields a 

 delicious sap which is mild when first drawn, but 

 begins to ferment in a very few moments after it 

 is exposed to the air. The teetotaler may inform 

 us that even though Mother Nature produces wine, 

 she does this in only one country while she produces 

 water in all. 



Pitch, tar, and turpentine are resinous products 

 present in many varieties of trees but which in the 

 United States are obtained commercially from the 

 pine family and more particularly from the Pinus 

 palustris of the Southern States. In Florida and 

 Texas great gangs of men go out every year into 



