230 AVERAGE YIELDS FROM FOREST LAND 



Spanish Chestnut of the so-called "cheap economic" split 

 fencing. 1 



So also it is probable that the dry distillation of wood 

 would also prove profitable. 2 



1 This manufacture of fencing has already been started by the Stanley 

 Underwood Company. 



2 The author hopes in another volume to give some details of investi- 

 gations he has recently made in Sweden (1906). However, considerable 

 capital would be required for the venture. In all probability, the best 

 means would be to distil over once in portable retorts in the woods, and 

 then to have a central plant (which is very expensive) where the crude 

 product can be refined and thereafter fractionally distilled. 



