CIS KESIN -TAPPING. 



crude resin yield 7 to 10 pounds of oil of turpentine, and about 

 30 pounds of colopbany. 



[K. McA. Moir, in charge of tlie rcsin-t:ii)ping of rinns loiujifoUa, 

 in .lansar, states that in 1894-5, G,318 trees were tapped and yielded 

 .')09 cwt. of crude resin (9 lbs. a tree). Each tree 6 feet in girth and 

 over is tapped for three consecutive years and thus yields 1 1 to 15 lbs., 

 the yield after the 3rd year's tapping being usually very small. 

 333 cwt. 64 lbs. of crude resin was distilled in the same year, and 

 yielded 222 cwt. 16 lbs. of colophany and 621 gallons of turpentine. 

 It is more profitable to sell the crude resin than to distil it ; it is 

 mixed with lac and used for making bracelets at Delhi. 



In India, l)esides resin, various kinds of gums arc collected for sale 

 IVotn numerous species of forest trees, also caoutchouc from Flms 

 • lastica, gutta-percha from species of Dichopsis, and from some of 

 these products fairly large revenues are obtained. Since 1872, the 

 Indian Forest Department has formed an extensive ])lantation of Ficus 

 ^fasdc'i in Assam, as it was found that the wholesale tapping of this 

 valuable tree (which is only disseminated in the forests) would render 

 it extinct.*— Tr.] 



■^ Vide Feriiamloz, Forest Utilization. 



