42 PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



'Georgia 6 years, Florida 8 years, Mississippi 8 years, Texas 10 

 years, Louisiana 15 years. 



" The naval stores belt of India is and always has been under 

 the administration of the Indian Forest Service, and is beincr 

 developed and exploited, fortunately for the industry, under the 

 French system of working and management, which differs from 

 the American practice mainly in that it allows of a continuous 

 sustained yield over a period of from 30 to 50 years on each 

 stand of timber without serious effect upon the final value of the 

 saw-timber. The American system of working exhausts the 

 naval stores productivity of a stand of timber in from 3 to 5 

 years and leaves it more or less damaged for saw timber. 



Under the wise, far-seeing management of foresters, the 

 naval stores industry of India may with certainty look 

 iorvvard to such development as that now enjoyed by the naval 

 stores of France. The supply will be continuous, uniform and 

 permanent, with a constantly increasing value for the finished 

 output. How different is the situation in America ! The naval 

 stores belt is all privately owned and is not subject to technical 

 control from any source. Consequently there is no system of 

 management, little or no advance in refinement of operation, 

 .and reforestation, when it occurs at all, is purely accidental. 

 -As a consequence, that great American industry, which for 

 the last century has furnished over 80 per cent, of the world's supply 

 of jaaval stores, will soon find itself put away in that dark closet 

 where hangs the body of the famous goose that laid the golden 

 egg." 



The chief interest of this extract is the admission that there 

 will be a definite decrease in American production of rosin and 

 turpentine iu from 8 to 10 years, which must effect a rise in prices 

 of these commodities all over the world. It is scarcely too much 

 to say that with the decrease o'f American supplies, several import- 

 ant industries in India will in 10 or 15 years' time be virtually 

 dependant on adequate supplies produced in India itself, so that, 



