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i:ksin-taim'IN< 



When, owing to a tree being exceptionally vigorous, or to bad 

 treatment, two grooves are made at the same time, which is 

 gcnenilly the case in private forests, they should be worked 

 simultaneously at dinVrent heights. 



4. Tirutnunt of Forests irJirrc Uesin-tapp'uui is Practised * 



One of the best examples of a maritime pine forest in which resin- 

 tapping is practised is the State Forest of La Teste, in latitude 4.") , 



Cro88-section of a pine first tapped " alive," ami tlicii tapped to death. 

 (itrooves 1 to 7 made from age of 21 every 4 years to 45. (irooves I. to IX. 

 made at the age of 51 years and have killed the tree. 



near Arcaclion, burdiTiug on the Bay of Biscay. It is situated on a 

 sandy soil, with layers of iron-pan, termed alios. The rainfall is 

 32 inches and the mean temperature 56° F. With the exception, 

 alon;; the coast, of 1,580 acres of protection-forest which is very 

 scrubby owing to the violence of the westerly winds and serves to 

 protect the better portion of the forest from wind and shifting sand, 



• This account is the result of a visit made by the translator to the forest of 

 I^ Teste, in 1894, with Mr. Hcarlc, wlien M. Oraudjoiin, the local forest-oihccr, 

 kindly alfordeJ lull information regarding the management of the forest. 



