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FOREST PRODUCTS 



processes were introduced from time to time which provided a substitute 

 for the box as a method of collecting the resin. It is said that the first 

 substitute was patented in 1868. 



In 1894 W. W. Ashe introduced the French cup and gutter system, 

 which had proved to be such a success in the maritime pine forests in the 

 Landes region of southwest France. Dr. C. H. Herty, however, is gen- 

 erally credited with the successful introduction and commercial applica- 



Photograph by U. S. Forest Service. 



FIG. 47. Correct position of the Herty cup and gutters. This shows the condition of the 

 face at the end of the first season after about thirty-five chippings have been made. 



tion of the cup and gutter systems in this country, and the Herty cup is 

 now widely used throughout the South. Only within the past two 

 decades, however, has this great improvement been generally adopted. 

 The first large commercial use of the cup system was in 1904. It is said 

 that at the present time as many cups are in use as boxes and on all new 

 forests tapped, probably 75 to 80 per cent of all the trees are equipped 



